Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 56
“Of course you don’t!” the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously.
Who acts: you, Hatter · What happens: not do, say, toss · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 do | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hatter | det |
| 10 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tossing | punct |
| 13 | tossing | toss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tossing | obj |
| 16 | contemptuously | contemptuously | ADV | _ | 13 tossing | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Hatter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | toss | gerund | the Hatter not said here | Hatter's head | contemptuously property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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