Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 30
No, it’ll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.”
Who acts: I, _ · What happens: ask, see, write up · To what, where: _ · 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 (I, _), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 ask | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 4 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 ask | mark |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 10 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 13 see | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ask | ccomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 see | xcomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 written | compound:prt |
| 17 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 written | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive · do-support | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | see | shall | I | _ | perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | write up | participle | _ not said here | somewhere property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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