Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 3
There was nothing so _very_ remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so _very_ much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear!
Who acts: nothing, Alice, Rabbit · What happens: be, think, hear, say · To what, where: trouble, way, Rabbit · 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 (nothing, Alice, Rabbit), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 remarkable | punct |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 remarkable | advmod |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 very | punct |
| 8 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 remarkable | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 think | cc |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | aux |
| 14 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 think | nsubj |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 was | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 think | obj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 so | punct |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 _ | advmod |
| 20 | _ | _ | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 way | advmod |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 think | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 hear | mark |
| 27 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 way | acl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Rabbit | det |
| 29 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hear | obj |
| 30 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 hear | xcomp |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 itself | case |
| 32 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 say | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 dear | punct |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 dear | punct |
| 35 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 36 dear | discourse |
| 36 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 way | parataxis |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · do-support | Alice | trouble | the way | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 3 | hear | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | the Rabbit | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | infinitive | the Rabbit not said here | trouble | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to itself=Recipient |
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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