Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 4
“I couldn’t help it,” said Five, in a sulky tone; “Seven jogged my elbow.”
Who acts: I, Seven · What happens: not help, say, jog · To what, where: paint, Five, sulky tone, elbow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Seven), 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 help | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 help | advmod |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tone | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tone | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tone | det |
| 14 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tone | amod |
| 15 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 jogged | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 jogged | punct |
| 18 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 jogged | nsubj |
| 19 | jogged | jog | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 21 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jogged | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 jogged | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 jogged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help in a quote | could | I | paint | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Five | a sulky tone | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | jog in a quote | past | Seven | my elbow | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme elbow=Trajectory |
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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