Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 41
“Of course not,” Alice replied very readily: “but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.”
Who acts: Alice, o’clock · What happens: reply, stay · 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, o’clock), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 not | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 replied | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 not | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 not | punct |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 readily | advmod |
| 10 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 ’s | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 ’s | nsubj |
| 15 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 “ | conj |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 stays | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stays | nsubj |
| 18 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ’s | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 year | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 year | amod |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stays | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 23 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 time | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 time | amod |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stays | obl |
| 27 | together | together | ADV | _ | 26 time | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Alice | readily property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | present | o’clock = o'clock | time; year | vn exist-47.1 «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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