Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 68
(Which he certainly did _not_, being made entirely of cardboard.)
Who acts: King · What happens: do, make
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 (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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 2 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 did | obj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 _ | advmod |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 did | conj |
| 12 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 14 cardboard | advmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cardboard | case |
| 14 | cardboard | cardboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | King | certainly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund · passive | King not said here | of cardboard | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
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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