Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 95
“I’m afraid I don’t know one,” said Alice, rather alarmed at the proposal.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: be, not know, say, alarm · To what, where: one, proposal · 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 (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 | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’m | xcomp |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | ccomp |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 know | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 alarmed | punct |
| 15 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 16 alarmed | advmod |
| 16 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 proposal | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 proposal | det |
| 19 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 alarmed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | Alice | afraid property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | Alice | one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | alarm | participle | Alice not said here | the proposal | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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