Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 95
Don’t be all day about it!” and he went on in these words:
Who acts: you, experiment · What happens: do, not be, go on · To what, where: day, words
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, experiment), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 day | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 day | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Do | obl |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 day | nmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 went | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 words | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 words | det |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a | infinitive | all day | about earth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go on in a quote | past | experiment | this words | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in word=Location |
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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