Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 87

“Yes, that’s it,” said the Hatter with a sigh: “it’s always tea-time, and we’ve no time to wash the things between whiles.”

Who acts: Hatter, we · What happens: say, have, wash · To what, where: 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 (Hatter, we), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 ’s	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ’s	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 ’s	nsubj
5	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ’s	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ’s	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 ’s	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Hatter	det
11	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 sigh	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sigh	det
14	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 ’s	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 ’s	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ’s	nsubj
18	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 time	advmod
20	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 time	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 tea	punct
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ’s	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ’ve	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ’ve	cc
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ’ve	nsubj
26	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ’s	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 time	det
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ’ve	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 wash	mark
30	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ’ve	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 things	det
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 wash	obj
33	between	between	ADP	_	34 whiles	case
34	whiles	while	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 wash	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Hatter			with a sigh	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with sigh=Manner
2	have in a quote	present	we		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	wash in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	the things	while		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

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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