Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 131
Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began very cautiously: “But I don’t understand.
Who acts: Alice, Hatter · What happens: not wish, offend, begin, not understand · To what, where: Dormouse · 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, Hatter), 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 | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wish | advmod |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 offend | mark |
| 6 | offend | offend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wish | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dormouse | det |
| 8 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 offend | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 offend | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 began | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 began | nsubj |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | parataxis |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 cautiously | advmod |
| 15 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 13 began | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 understand | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 understand | punct |
| 18 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 understand | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 understand | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 understand | aux |
| 21 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 understand | advmod |
| 22 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wish | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish | past · do-support | Alice | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | offend not said to happen | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | the Dormouse | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dormouse=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | begin | past | Alice | cautiously property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not understand in a quote | present · do-support | Hatter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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