Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 45

“The Dormouse is asleep again,” said the Hatter, and he poured a little hot tea upon its nose.

Who acts: Dormouse, Hatter · What happens: be, say, pour · To what, where: little hot tea · 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 (Dormouse, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Dormouse	det
3	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 asleep	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 asleep	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Hatter	det
11	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 poured	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 poured	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 poured	nsubj
15	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tea	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tea	amod
18	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tea	amod
19	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 poured	obj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 nose	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 nose	nmod:poss
22	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 poured	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the Dormouse		again	asleep property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Hatter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pour	past	Hatter	a little hot tea		upon tea's nose	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=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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