Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 117
The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and then said, “It was a treacle-well.”
Who acts: Dormouse, bottom · What happens: take, think, say, be · To what, where: treacle · 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 (Dormouse, bottom), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dormouse | det |
| 2 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 minute | det |
| 6 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 two | cc |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 minute | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 think | mark |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | advcl |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 think | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 said | advmod |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 treacle | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 treacle | punct |
| 19 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 treacle | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 treacle | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 treacle | det |
| 22 | treacle | treacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 well | punct |
| 24 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 22 treacle | discourse |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 well | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 treacle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Dormouse | again; minute | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the Dormouse not said here | about bottom | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Dormouse not said here | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | bottom | a treacle | tree rules |
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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