Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 113
“Nobody asked _your_ opinion,” said Alice.
Who acts: Nobody, Alice, your · What happens: ask, say, opine · To what, where: opinion · 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 (Nobody, Alice, your), 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 asked | punct |
| 2 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 opinion | punct |
| 7 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | Nobody | your opinion | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent opinion=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | opine in a quote | your | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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