Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 88
“It’s a friend of mine—a Cheshire Cat,” said Alice: “allow me to introduce it.”
Who acts: curiosity, friend · What happens: be, say, allow, introduce · To what, where: friend, curiosity · 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 (curiosity, friend), 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 friend | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 friend | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mine | case |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Cat | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Cat | det |
| 10 | Cheshire | Cheshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Cat | compound |
| 11 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 friend | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 allow | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 allow | punct |
| 18 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 allow | iobj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 introduce | mark |
| 21 | introduce | introduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 allow | xcomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 introduce | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 allow | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 allow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | curiosity | a friend and a Cheshire Cat | of a friend and a Cheshire Cat = friend | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a friend and a Cheshire Cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | allow in a quote | infinitive | a friend and a Cheshire Cat = friend | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | introduce not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | curiosity | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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