Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 111
“I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more.”
Who acts: Alice · What happens: have, reply, not take · To what, where: nothing, offended tone, more · 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 (Alice), 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 had | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’ve | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | parataxis |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 9 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tone | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tone | det |
| 13 | offended | offended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tone | amod |
| 14 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tone | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 take | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 take | nsubj |
| 19 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 take | advmod |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 take | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Alice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | nothing | yet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Alice | a offended tone | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not take in a quote | can | Alice | more | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
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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