Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 41
“I’m glad they don’t give birthday presents like that!”
Who acts: cheap sort, ’s · What happens: be, not give · To what, where: birthday presents
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 (cheap sort, ’s), 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 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | advcl |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’m | xcomp |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 give | advmod |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 presents | compound |
| 10 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 give | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 presents | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | a cheap sort of present = sort | glad property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not give in a quote | present · do-support | ’s = ' | birthday presents | like that | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme |
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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