Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 119
“You know what to beautify is, I suppose?”
Who acts: You, Alice · What happens: know, be, beautify, suppose · 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 (You, 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 know | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 beautify | mark |
| 6 | beautify | beautify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 what | acl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 suppose | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 suppose | nsubj |
| 10 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | beautify in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | suppose in a quote | present | Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: 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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