Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 101
“We had the best of educations—in fact, we went to school every day—”
Who acts: We · What happens: have, go · To what, where: best educations, school
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 had | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 educations | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 educations | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 educations | case |
| 7 | educations | education | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 fact | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fact | case |
| 10 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 educations | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 school | case |
| 15 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | We | the best educations and fact | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent education=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | we | school | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location |
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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