Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 64
“No, I didn’t,” said Alice: “I don’t think it’s at all a pity.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: not do, say, not think · 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 (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 | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 did | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 did | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 think | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 think | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 think | advmod |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 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 | 16 think | ccomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 pity | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 pity | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pity | det |
| 22 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ’s | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | past | Alice | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | Alice | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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