Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 52
These were the verses the White Rabbit read:—
Who acts: These, verses · What happens: be, read · To what, where: verses
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: who acts (These, verses), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 verses | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 verses | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 verses | det |
| 4 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 read | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rabbit | det |
| 6 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Rabbit | amod |
| 7 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 read | nsubj |
| 8 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 read | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | These | the verses | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | read | past | the verses | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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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