Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 46

The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, without opening its eyes, “Of course, of course; just what I was going to remark myself.”

Who acts: Dormouse · What happens: shake, say, open, go, remark · To what, where: head, eyes, Hatter · 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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Dormouse	det
2	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shook	nsubj
3	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shook	obj
6	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	_	3 shook	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shook	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 opening	punct
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 opening	mark
12	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 opening	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 course	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 course	punct
17	Of	of	ADP	_	18 course	case
18	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 opening	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 course	punct
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 course	case
21	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 opening	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 what	advmod
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 going	nsubj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 going	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 going	aux
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 shook	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 remark	mark
29	remark	remark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 going	xcomp
30	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 remark	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the Dormouse	tea's head	impatiently property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	open	gerund		tea's eyes	of course; of course	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
4	go in a quote	past · progressive				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	remark speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive		the Hatter = hatter		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent myself=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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