Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 112
“It’s the first position in dancing.”
Who acts: nose · What happens: be · To what, where: first position, dancing
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nose), 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 | _ | 6 position | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 position | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 position | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 position | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 position | amod |
| 6 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dancing | case |
| 8 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 position | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 position | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 position | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | nose | the first position | dancing | 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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