Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 29
“And what an ignorant little girl she’ll think me for asking!
Who acts: ignorant little girl · What happens: think, ask · To what, where: Ma’am
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 (ignorant little girl), 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 | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 think | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 think | obj |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 5 | ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 think | nsubj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 9 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | aux |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 think | obj |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 asking | mark |
| 13 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 think | advcl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | future | a ignorant little girl | Ma’am = ma'am | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme i=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | gerund | a ignorant little girl not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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