Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 72
“Nothing can be clearer than _that_.
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: be
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 (Nothing), 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 clearer | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 clearer | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 clearer | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 clearer | cop |
| 5 | clearer | clear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 _ | case |
| 7 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clearer | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 _ | nsubj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 _ | punct |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clearer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | can | Nothing | than _; clear property | tree rules |
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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