Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 83
“And ever since that,” the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, “he won’t do a thing I ask!
Who acts: Hatter, dreadfully savage · What happens: go on, not do, ask · To what, where: mournful tone, thing · 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 (Hatter, dreadfully savage), 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 | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 that | cc |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 that | advmod |
| 4 | since | since | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 “ | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Hatter | det |
| 9 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 went | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tone | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tone | det |
| 14 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tone | amod |
| 15 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 19 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 do | advmod |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thing | det |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | obj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 ask | nsubj |
| 25 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 thing | acl:relcl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the Hatter | a mournful tone | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | future | Hatter | a thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | dreadfully savage = savage | a thing not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=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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