Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 105
“What did they live on?” said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking.
Who acts: names, Alice, questions · What happens: live on, say, take, eat, drink · To what, where: great interest, questions · 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 (names, Alice, questions), 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 | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 live | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | aux |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 live | compound:prt |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 took | nsubj |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 took | advmod |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Alice | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 interest | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 interest | amod |
| 17 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 questions | case |
| 19 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 interest | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 eating | mark |
| 21 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 questions | acl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drinking | cc |
| 23 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 eating | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live on in a quote | past · do-support | names = name | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme what=Location | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Alice | a great interest | questions | always property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in question=Location | ||
| 4 | eat | gerund | questions not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drink | gerund | questions not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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