Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 7
“What sort of a dance is it?”
Who acts: sort · What happens: be, sort · To what, where: dance
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 (sort), 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 | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 sort | det |
| 3 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dance | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dance | det |
| 6 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sort | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 is | expl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | what sort of a dance | dance | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sort in a quote | a dance | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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