Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 99
“How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!” thought Alice; “I might as well be at school at once.”
Who acts: creatures, Alice · What happens: order, make, repeat, think, be · To what, where: one, lessons, school · 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 (creatures, Alice), 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 | _ | 5 order | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 order | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 creatures | det |
| 4 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 order | nsubj |
| 5 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 order | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 order | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 order | conj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 repeat | nummod |
| 12 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | xcomp |
| 13 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 repeat | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 order | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 order | punct |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 school | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 school | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 school | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 school | aux |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 26 school | cc |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 school | cop |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 school | case |
| 26 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 once | case |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 school | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 once | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 school | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order in a quote | infinitive | the creatures | one | about property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | infinitive | the creatures not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | repeat in a quote | infinitive | the creatures not said here | lessons | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | might | Alice | school | once property | 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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