Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 64
And yet I don’t know,” he went on, spreading out the verses on his knee, and looking at them with one eye; “I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.
Who acts: I, King · What happens: not know, go on, spread out, look, seem, see · To what, where: verses, knee, meaning · Speech: someone speaks here
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, King), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 know | cc |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 know | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | ccomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spreading | punct |
| 13 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 went | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 spreading | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 verses | det |
| 16 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spreading | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 knee | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 knee | nmod:poss |
| 19 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 verses | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looking | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 looking | cc |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 spreading | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 looking | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 eye | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 eye | nummod |
| 27 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looking | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 seem | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 seem | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 seem | nsubj |
| 31 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 see | mark |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 all | advcl |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 meaning | det |
| 35 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 see | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 see | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 all | punct |
| 39 | after | after | ADP | _ | 40 all | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 seem | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go on in a quote | past | King | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spread out in a quote | gerund | King not said here | the verses | King's knee | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent verse=Theme on knee=Destination | |||
| 4 | look in a quote | gerund | King not said here | at verses = verse; with one eye | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seem | present | I | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | some meaning | in verses = verse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus |
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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