Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 122

I dare say there may be _one_.”

Who acts: I · What happens: say, _ · To what, where: one · 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	dare	dare	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 _	expl
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 _	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 _	aux:pass
7	_	_	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 say	ccomp
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 _	obj
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	dare	I						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	_	may · passive		one		there			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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