Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 58
“Perhaps not,” Alice cautiously replied: “but I know I have to beat time when I learn music.”
Who acts: Alice · What happens: reply, know, have, beat, learn · To what, where: music · 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Perhaps | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Perhaps | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Perhaps | punct |
| 6 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 beat | mark |
| 17 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 have | xcomp |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beat | obj |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 learn | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 learn | nsubj |
| 21 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 beat | advcl |
| 22 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 learn | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Alice | cautiously, perhaps property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | Alice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Alice | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | beat in a quote | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | learn in a quote | present | Alice | music | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=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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