Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 120
It’s by far the most confusing thing _I_ ever heard!”
Who acts: use, I · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: confusing thing
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 (use, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | cop |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 far | case |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 confusing | advmod |
| 7 | confusing | confusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 thing | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | _ | _ | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 heard | aux |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 heard | advmod |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 thing | parataxis |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | use | the confusing thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | I | ever | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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