Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 23
“I wonder if I shall fall right _through_ the earth!
Who acts: Alice · What happens: wonder, fall · To what, where: earth
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 | _ | 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 | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 fall | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 fall | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fall | aux |
| 7 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wonder | ccomp |
| 8 | right | right | ADV | _ | 7 fall | advmod |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | discourse |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 earth | case |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 through | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 earth | det |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wonder | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | Alice | the earth | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fall a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | shall | Alice | right property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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