Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 57
My notion was that you had been (Before she had this fit) An obstacle that came between Him, and ourselves, and it.
Who acts: trial, notion, obstacle · What happens: have, be, come · To what, where: fit, obstacle, notion
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 (trial, notion, obstacle), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 notion | nmod:poss |
| 2 | notion | notion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 obstacle | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 obstacle | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 obstacle | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 obstacle | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 obstacle | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 obstacle | cop |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 obstacle | punct |
| 9 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 obstacle | advcl |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 fit | det |
| 13 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 15 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 obstacle | det |
| 16 | obstacle | obstacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 obstacle | acl:relcl |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 20 Him | case |
| 20 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ourselves | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ourselves | cc |
| 23 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 came | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 it | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 it | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 obstacle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | trial | this fit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | My notion | a obstacle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a obstacle | notion | between Rabbit | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between he=Location |
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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