Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 16
The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he _said_ was, “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
Who acts: Hatter · What happens: open, hear, say, be · To what, where: eyes, this, raven · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hatter | det |
| 2 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 wide | advmod |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 8 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 hearing | mark |
| 9 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 wide | advcl |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 hearing | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 said | ccomp |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 he | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 raven | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 raven | cop |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 raven | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 raven | punct |
| 21 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 raven | advmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 raven | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 raven | det |
| 24 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 desk | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 desk | det |
| 27 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 desk | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 writing | punct |
| 29 | desk | desk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 raven | nmod |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 desk | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 raven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the Hatter | Hatter's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the Hatter not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Hatter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | a raven | like a writing desk | tree rules |
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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