Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 63
“Did you say ‘What a pity!’?” the Rabbit asked.
Who acts: you, Rabbit · What happens: say, pity, ask · 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 (you, Rabbit), 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 say | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 pity | punct |
| 6 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 pity | nsubj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pity | det |
| 8 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 pity | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 pity | punct |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Rabbit | det |
| 14 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pity in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Rabbit | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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