Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 121
Alice said very humbly; “I won’t interrupt again.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: say, not interrupt · 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 humbly | advmod |
| 4 | humbly | humbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | xcomp |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 interrupt | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 interrupt | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 interrupt | nsubj |
| 8 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 interrupt | aux |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 interrupt | advmod |
| 10 | interrupt | interrupt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | conj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 interrupt | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | humbly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not interrupt in a quote | future | Alice | again | 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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