Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 27
(and she tried to curtsey as she spoke—fancy _curtseying_ as you’re falling through the air!
Who acts: Ma’am, fancy _, you · What happens: try, curtsey, speak, be, fall · To what, where: air · 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 (Ma’am, fancy _, you), 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 | _ | 4 tried | punct |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tried | cc |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 curtsey | mark |
| 6 | curtsey | curtsey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 spoke | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 spoke | nsubj |
| 9 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 curtsey | advcl |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 curtseying | punct |
| 11 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 _ | amod |
| 12 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 curtseying | nsubj |
| 13 | curtseying | curtsey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 tried | parataxis |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 ’re | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 ’re | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 ’re | nsubj |
| 17 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 curtseying | conj |
| 18 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 curtseying | conj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 air | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 air | det |
| 21 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 falling | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Ma’am = ma'am | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | curtsey not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ma’am = ma'am not said here | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | Ma’am = ma'am | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | curtsey | gerund | fancy _ | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | does | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fall | gerund | fancy _ not said here | the air | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
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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