Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 44
“I don’t quite understand you,” she said, as politely as she could.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: not understand, say · To what, where: you · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 understand | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 understand | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 understand | advmod |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 understand | advmod |
| 6 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 understand | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 understand | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 understand | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 politely | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 politely | advmod |
| 14 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 could | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 could | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 politely | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand in a quote | present · do-support | Alice | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | politely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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