Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 19
_All persons more than a mile high to leave the court_.”
What happens: leave · To what, where: court
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence. 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 persons | det |
| 3 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 more | nsubj |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 mile | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mile | det |
| 7 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 more | obl |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mile | amod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 leave | mark |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 high | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 court | det |
| 12 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obj |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 high | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | to-infinitive | the court | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=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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