Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 56
If I or she should chance to be Involved in this affair, He trusts to you to set them free, Exactly as we were.
Who acts: I, Rabbit, we · What happens: chance, be, trust, set · To what, where: affair, you, 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 (I, Rabbit, we), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 chance | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 chance | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 chance | cc |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 chance | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 chance | aux |
| 6 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trusts | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 Involved | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Involved | cop |
| 9 | Involved | involved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chance | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 affair | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 affair | det |
| 12 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Involved | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 chance | punct |
| 14 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 trusts | nsubj |
| 15 | trusts | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 trusts | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 set | mark |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 trusts | xcomp |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | obj |
| 21 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 set | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 were | punct |
| 23 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 26 were | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 were | mark |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 were | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 trusts | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 trusts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance a condition, not said to happen | should | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Rabbit not said here | this affair | involved property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | trust | present | Rabbit | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | set | to-infinitive | Rabbit not said here | verses = verse | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result | |||
| 5 | be | past | we | exactly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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