Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 82
“The idea of having the sentence first!”
Who acts: idea · What happens: have · To what, where: sentence
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 (idea), 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 | _ | 3 idea | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 idea | det |
| 3 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 having | mark |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 idea | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sentence | det |
| 7 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 having | advmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 idea | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 idea | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | gerund | the idea not said here | the sentence | first property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient |
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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