Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 26
Please, Ma’am, is this New Zealand or Australia?”
Who acts: Ma’am · What happens: be · To what, where: New Zealand
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 (Ma’am), 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 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 3 Ma’am | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ma’am | punct |
| 3 | Ma’am | Ma'am | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Zealand | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ma’am | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Zealand | cop |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 Zealand | nsubj |
| 7 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Zealand | flat |
| 8 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 Australia | cc |
| 10 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Zealand | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Zealand | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Zealand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ma’am | New Zealand or Australia | tree rules |
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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