Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 12
“I didn’t know it was _your_ table,” said Alice; “it’s laid for a great many more than three.”
Who acts: Alice, wine · What happens: not know, be, say, lay · To what, where: table, wine · 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, wine), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 table | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 table | cop |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 table | punct |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 table | nmod:poss |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 table | punct |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 laid | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 laid | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 laid | aux:pass |
| 20 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 three | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 three | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 three | amod |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 three | amod |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 27 three | advmod |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 more | fixed |
| 27 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 laid | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | Alice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | wine | your table | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | lay in a quote | present · passive | wine | for a great many three | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for three=Beneficiary |
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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