Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 106
“They lived on treacle,” said the Dormouse, after thinking a minute or two.
Who acts: names, Dormouse, minute · What happens: live, say, think · To what, where: treacle · 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, Dormouse, minute), 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 | _ | 3 lived | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 treacle | case |
| 5 | treacle | treacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dormouse | det |
| 10 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thinking | punct |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 thinking | mark |
| 13 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 minute | det |
| 15 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thinking | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 two | cc |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 minute | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | past | names = name | treacle | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on treacle=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Dormouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | a minute | minute | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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