Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 126

“What did they draw?” said Alice, quite forgetting her promise.

Who acts: sisters, Alice · What happens: draw, say, forget, promise · To what, where: promise · 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 (sisters, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 draw	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 draw	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 draw	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 draw	nsubj
5	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 draw	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 draw	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 forgetting	punct
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 forgetting	advmod
12	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 promise	nmod:poss
14	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forgetting	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	draw in a quote	past · do-support	sisters = sister		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	Alice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	forget	gerund	Alice not said here	Alice's promise	tree rules
4	promise		Alice		nom promise «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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