Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 2
“Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse,” thought Alice; “only, as it’s asleep, I suppose it doesn’t mind.”
Who acts: uncomfortable, Dormouse · What happens: think, be, suppose, not mind · 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 (uncomfortable, Dormouse), 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 uncomfortable | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 3 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Dormouse | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Dormouse | det |
| 6 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 uncomfortable | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 uncomfortable | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 uncomfortable | punct |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 asleep | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 asleep | punct |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 asleep | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 only | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 asleep | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asleep | nsubj |
| 17 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 asleep | cop |
| 18 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 suppose | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 suppose | nsubj |
| 21 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 asleep | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 mind | nsubj |
| 23 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 mind | aux |
| 24 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 mind | advmod |
| 25 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 suppose | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 asleep | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 asleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | uncomfortable | Alice | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot alice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Dormouse | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | suppose in a quote | present | uncomfortable | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not mind in a quote | present · do-support | Dormouse | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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