Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 11
“It wasn’t very civil of you to sit down without being invited,” said the March Hare.
Who acts: It, March Hare · What happens: not be, sit down, invite, say · 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 (It, March Hare), 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 | _ | 6 civil | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 civil | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 civil | cop |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 civil | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 civil | advmod |
| 6 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 civil | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sit | mark |
| 10 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 civil | csubj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 sit | compound:prt |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 invited | mark |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 invited | aux:pass |
| 14 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sit | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 civil | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 civil | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Hare | det |
| 19 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Hare | compound |
| 20 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | past | It | of you; civil property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit down in a quote | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | invite in a quote | gerund · passive | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING» | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the March Hare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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