Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 115

Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped herself to some tea and bread-and-butter, and then turned to the Dormouse, and repeated her question.

Who acts: Alice, bread · What happens: not know, say, help, butter, turn, repeat · To what, where: this, Alice, question · 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, bread), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 know	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 know	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 this	case
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 say	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 helped	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 helped	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 helped	nsubj
14	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	parataxis
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 helped	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 tea	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 tea	det
18	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 helped	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 butter	cc
20	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 butter	nsubj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 butter	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 butter	cc
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tea	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 turned	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 turned	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 turned	advmod
28	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 helped	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 Dormouse	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Dormouse	det
31	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 turned	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 repeated	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 repeated	cc
34	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 helped	conj
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 question	nmod:poss
36	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 repeated	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Alice					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive			this			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to this=Recipient
3	help	past	Alice	Alice			to some tea and butter	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary
4	butter		bread					tree rules
5	turn	past	Alice not said here			then	to the Dormouse result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to dormouse=Result
6	repeat	past	Alice not said here	Alice's question				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
7	question		Alice					nom question «communication 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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