Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 18
“I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?” she said aloud.
Who acts: fall · What happens: wonder, fall, say · To what, where: many miles · 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 (fall), 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 wonder | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 miles | amod |
| 6 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wonder | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 fallen | nsubj |
| 8 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fallen | aux |
| 9 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 miles | acl:relcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fallen | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 16 said | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | fall | many miles | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall in a quote | present · perfect | fall | many miles not said here | time | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mile=Result | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | fall | aloud property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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