Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 48
“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “what’s the answer?”
Who acts: Alice · What happens: give up, reply · To what, where: head · 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 | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 give | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 give | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 10 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’s | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’s | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 ’s | nsubj |
| 15 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 answer | det |
| 17 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ’s | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 answer | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up in a quote | present | Alice | head | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: 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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