Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 136
“Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday?”
Who acts: eleventh day · What happens: be · To what, where: holiday
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 (eleventh day), 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 | _ | 10 holiday | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 holiday | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | eleventh | eleventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holiday | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 holiday | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 holiday | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 holiday | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 holiday | det |
| 10 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 holiday | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 holiday | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | must · perfect | the eleventh day | a holiday | then | tree rules |
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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