Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 103
“And be quick about it,” added the Hatter, “or you’ll be asleep again before it’s done.”
Who acts: Hatter, you · What happens: be, add, do · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hatter, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 quick | cc |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 quick | cop |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 added | ccomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 quick | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 9 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hatter | det |
| 11 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 added | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asleep | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 asleep | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 asleep | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 asleep | nsubj |
| 16 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 asleep | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 asleep | cop |
| 18 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 added | parataxis |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 asleep | advmod |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 done | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 done | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux:pass |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 asleep | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | about story; quick property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | the Hatter | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | you | again | asleep property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | do in a quote | present · passive | story | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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