Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 19
“I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.
Who acts: fall · What happens: get · To what, where: centre
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 | _ | 5 getting | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 getting | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 getting | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 getting | aux |
| 5 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 getting | advmod |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 centre | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 centre | det |
| 9 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 getting | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 centre | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | must · progressive | fall | the centre of the earth | somewhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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