Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 110
“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
Who acts: March Hare · What happens: take, say · To what, where: more tea, Alice · 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 (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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 tea | det |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 tea | amod |
| 5 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hare | det |
| 9 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Hare | compound |
| 10 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Alice | case |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 earnestly | punct |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 earnestly | advmod |
| 16 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | infinitive | some more tea | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the March Hare | Alice | earnestly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to alice=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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