Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 136
Who cares for fish, Game, or any other dish?
What happens: care · To what, where: other dish
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: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 cares | nsubj |
| 2 | cares | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 fish | case |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cares | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Game | punct |
| 6 | Game | Game | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fish | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dish | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 dish | cc |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 dish | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dish | amod |
| 11 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cares | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 cares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | present | any other dish | for fish | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for fish=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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