Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 80
“Sentence first—verdict afterwards.”
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: 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 | _ | 2 Sentence | punct |
| 2 | Sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 Sentence | advmod |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 verdict | punct |
| 5 | verdict | verdict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sentence | appos |
| 6 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 verdict | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 verdict | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sentence | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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