Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 11
“Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”
Who acts: Everything ’s, you · What happens: get, find · To what, where: moral
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 (Everything ’s, you), 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 got | punct |
| 2 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 ’s | compound |
| 3 | ’s | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moral | det |
| 6 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 find | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 find | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | Everything ’s | a moral | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moral=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | moral | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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