Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 134

“But they were _in_ the well,” Alice said to the Dormouse, not choosing to notice this last remark.

Who acts: Hare, Alice · What happens: be, say, not choose, notice · To what, where: well, Dormouse, last remark · 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 (Hare, 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	_	9 well	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 well	cc
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 well	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 well	cop
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 well	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 well	case
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 in	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 well	det
9	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 well	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 well	punct
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Dormouse	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Dormouse	det
16	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 choosing	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 choosing	advmod
19	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 notice	mark
21	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 choosing	xcomp
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 remark	det
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 remark	amod
24	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 notice	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	Hare			the well	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Alice		the Dormouse		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dormouse=Recipient
3	not choose	gerund	Alice not said here				tree rules
4	notice	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	this last remark			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer remark=Stimulus

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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