Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 86
“Is that the reason so many tea-things are put out here?” she asked.
Who acts: reason, Alice · What happens: be, put out, ask · To what, where: reason, many tea things · 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 (reason, 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 | _ | 5 reason | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reason | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 reason | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reason | det |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 8 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 things | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tea | punct |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 put | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | aux:pass |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 reason | acl:relcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 put | compound:prt |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 put | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 reason | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asked | nsubj |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the reason | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | put out in a quote | present · passive | the reason not said here | many tea things | here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Alice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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