Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 42
“What matters it how far we go?” his scaly friend replied.
Who acts: we, scaly friend · What happens: matter, go, reply · To what, where: look · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, scaly friend), 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 | _ | 3 matters | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 matters | nsubj |
| 3 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 matters | obj |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 far | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 go | advmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 replied | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friend | nmod:poss |
| 12 | scaly | scaly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 friend | amod |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 matters | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 matters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter in a quote | present | look | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | we | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: ask | past | snail's scaly friend | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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