Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 96
“Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn’t believe it—”
Who acts: we, you · What happens: go, not believe · To what, where: sea
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 (we, 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 | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 went | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 believe | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 believe | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 believe | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 believe | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 believe | advmod |
| 16 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 believe | obj |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | we | the sea | to school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not believe in a quote | may | you | sea | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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