Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 21
“Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on.
Who acts: you, March Hare · What happens: say, mean, go on · 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 | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 say | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 mean | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 mean | nsubj |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Hare | det |
| 12 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Hare | compound |
| 13 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | should | you | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go on | past | the March Hare | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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