Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 64
(“I only wish it was,” the March Hare said to itself in a whisper.)
Who acts: March Hare, dinner · What happens: wish, be, say · To what, where: dinner, whisper · 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, dinner), 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 wish | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 wish | advmod |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hare | det |
| 11 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Hare | compound |
| 12 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 itself | case |
| 15 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 whisper | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 whisper | det |
| 18 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | the March Hare = hare | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | past | dinner | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the March Hare | dinner | a whisper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to itself=Recipient |
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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