Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 12
“Well!” thought Alice to herself, “after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!
Who acts: Alice · What happens: think, tumble down · To what, where: Alice, nothing, stairs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice), 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 thought | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 thought | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 herself | case |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 thought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 fall | case |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 fall | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fall | det |
| 14 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 think | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 this | case |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 fall | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fall | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 think | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 think | aux |
| 20 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | conj |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 think | obj |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 tumbling | mark |
| 23 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 nothing | acl |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 tumbling | compound:prt |
| 25 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 tumbling | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Alice | Alice | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | shall | Alice | nothing | after such fall as this | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | |||
| 3 | tumble down in a quote | gerund | stairs | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stair=Theme |
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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