Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 142
“Really, now you ask me,” said Alice, very much confused, “I don’t think—”
Who acts: you, Alice · What happens: ask, say, not think · To what, where: Alice · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 6 ask | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Really | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 ask | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 ask | nsubj |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ask | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 confused | punct |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 confused | advmod |
| 15 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 think | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 think | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 think | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 think | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 think | advmod |
| 21 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 confused | parataxis |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 think | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | Alice | now | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | Alice | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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