Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 19
“Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?” said the March Hare.
Who acts: you, March Hare · What happens: mean, think, find out, say · To what, where: answer · 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, March 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 | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 think | ccomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 find | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 answer | det |
| 13 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 answer | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Hare | det |
| 20 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Hare | compound |
| 21 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find out in a quote | can | you | the answer | to answer | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the March Hare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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