Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 33
“It was the _best_ butter,” the March Hare meekly replied.
Who acts: butter, March Hare · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: best butter · 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 (butter, 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 | _ | 8 butter | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 butter | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 butter | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 butter | det |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 best | punct |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 butter | amod |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 butter | punct |
| 8 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 butter | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 butter | 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 | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | meekly | meekly | ADV | _ | 15 replied | advmod |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | butter | the best butter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the March Hare | meekly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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