Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 135
“Of course they were,” said the Dormouse; “—well in.”
Who acts: Hare · What happens: say in
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), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 they | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 they | dep |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 were | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 they | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dormouse | det |
| 10 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 in | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 in | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 in | punct |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 in | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 said | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say in speech: assert | past | Hare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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