Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 92
“Suppose we change the subject,” the March Hare interrupted, yawning.
Who acts: we, March Hare · What happens: change, interrupt, yawn · To what, where: Suppose · 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 (we, 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 | _ | 4 change | punct |
| 2 | Suppose | suppose | X | _ | 4 change | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 change | nsubj |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 interrupted | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 subject | det |
| 6 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 change | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 change | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hare | det |
| 10 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Hare | compound |
| 11 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 interrupted | nsubj |
| 12 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 yawning | punct |
| 14 | yawning | yawn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 interrupted | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 interrupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change in a quote | present | we | Suppose | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | interrupt | past | the March Hare | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | yawn | gerund | the March Hare not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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