Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 37
“What a funny watch!” she remarked.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: remark · To what, where: funny watch
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 watch | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 watch | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 watch | det |
| 4 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 watch | amod |
| 5 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 watch | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 watch | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 remarked | nsubj |
| 9 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 watch | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | participle | Alice | what funny watch not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent watch=Topic |
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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