Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 26
“You might just as well say,” added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, “that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!”
Who acts: You, Dormouse, March Hare, that, three · What happens: say, add, seem, talk, breathe, sleep · To what, where: sleep, same thing · 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, Dormouse, March Hare, that), 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 | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 say | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 7 say | cc |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 added | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 10 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dormouse | det |
| 12 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 added | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Dormouse | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 talking | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 talking | aux |
| 18 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 sleep | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 talking | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 thing | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 thing | punct |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 thing | nsubj |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 breathe | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 breathe | nsubj |
| 27 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 that | parataxis |
| 28 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 30 sleep | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 sleep | nsubj |
| 30 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 breathe | advcl |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 breathe | punct |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 thing | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 thing | det |
| 34 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 thing | amod |
| 35 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 talking | parataxis |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 sleep | mark |
| 37 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 sleep | punct |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 sleep | nsubj |
| 39 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 thing | advcl |
| 40 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 42 breathe | mark |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 breathe | nsubj |
| 42 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 sleep | conj |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 breathe | punct |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 thing | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | might | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | the Dormouse | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | the Dormouse | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | talk | to-infinitive · progressive | the Dormouse not said here | three's sleep | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | breathe in a quote | present | the March Hare = hare | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sleep in a quote | present | the March Hare = hare | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | that | the same thing | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | sleep in a quote | present | the March Hare = hare | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | breathe in a quote | present | the March Hare = hare | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | sleep | three | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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