Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 43

Alice felt dreadfully puzzled, The Hatter’s remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.

Who acts: Alice, remark, sort, Hatter · What happens: feel, puzzle, seem, have, be, remark · To what, where: sort, English, meaning

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, remark, sort, Hatter), 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 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	4 puzzled	advmod
4	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 felt	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Hatter	det
7	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 remark	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Hatter	case
9	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 have	mark
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seemed	xcomp
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 sort	det
14	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 meaning	case
16	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sort	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 meaning	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 English	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 English	cc
21	yet	yet	ADV	_	25 English	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 English	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 English	cop
24	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	25 English	advmod
25	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 seemed	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Alice				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	puzzle	participle	Alice not said here			dreadfully property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	seem	past	the Hatter's remark				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	have	to-infinitive	the Hatter's remark not said here	no sort of meaning in meaning			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient
5	is a	past	sort	English	yet	certainly property	tree rules
6	remark		the Hatter				nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7	sort			meaning in meaning			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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