Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 108
“Now at _ours_ they had at the end of the bill, ‘French, music, _and washing_—extra.’”
Who acts: extras · What happens: have, wash · To what, where: French, end · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (extras), 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 | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 had | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 ours | case |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 at | punct |
| 5 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Now | obl |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bill | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bill | det |
| 14 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 end | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 French | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ‘ | ADP | _ | 17 French | case |
| 17 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 music | punct |
| 19 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 French | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 music | punct |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 French | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 extra | cc |
| 23 | washing | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 extra | csubj |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 washing | punct |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 extra | punct |
| 26 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 had | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 extra | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 extra | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | extras = extra | French | at the end of the bill; now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=Patient | |||
| 2 | wash in a quote | gerund | vn floss-41.2.1 «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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