Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 127
“Treacle,” said the Dormouse, without considering at all this time.
Who acts: Treacle · What happens: say, consider · 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 (Treacle), 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 | _ | 2 Treacle | punct |
| 2 | Treacle | treacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Treacle | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Treacle | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Dormouse | det |
| 7 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 considering | punct |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 considering | mark |
| 10 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 time | det:predet |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 considering | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Treacle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | consider | gerund | Treacle not said here | time | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=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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