Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 18
“I’m glad they’ve begun asking riddles.—I believe I can guess that,” she added aloud.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: be, begin, ask, believe, guess, add · To what, where: eyes, riddles, that · 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), 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 | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’m | ccomp |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 begun | nsubj |
| 6 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 begun | aux:pass |
| 7 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 glad | ccomp |
| 8 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 begun | xcomp |
| 9 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 asking | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’m | conj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 guess | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 guess | aux |
| 16 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 believe | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 guess | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 added | nsubj |
| 21 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 believe | parataxis |
| 22 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 21 added | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | Alice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | begin in a quote | present · passive | eyes = eye | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | gerund | riddles | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent riddle=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | believe in a quote | present | Alice | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | guess in a quote | can | Alice | that | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 6 | add speech: assert | past | Alice | aloud property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: 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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