Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 6
“Have some wine,” the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.
Who acts: March Hare · What happens: have, say, encourage · To what, where: wine, encouraging tone · 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 (March Hare), 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 | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 wine | det |
| 4 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Hare | det |
| 8 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Hare | compound |
| 9 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tone | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tone | det |
| 13 | encouraging | encourage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 tone | amod |
| 14 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | infinitive | some wine | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the March Hare | a encouraging tone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | encourage | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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