Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 30
Alice considered a little, and then said “The fourth.”
Who acts: Alice · What happens: consider, say · To what, where: little · 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 considered | nsubj |
| 2 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 considered | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 said | advmod |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 considered | conj |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fourth | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fourth | det |
| 11 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | vocative |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 considered | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | Alice | a little | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Alice not said here | then | the fourth vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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