Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 33
“Dinah’ll miss me very much to-night, I should think!”
Who acts: Dinah, Ma’am · What happens: miss, think · 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 (Dinah, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 miss | punct |
| 2 | Dinah | Dinah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 miss | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 miss | aux |
| 4 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 miss | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 miss | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 much | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | aux |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 miss | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 miss | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 miss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss in a quote | future | Dinah | Ma’am = ma'am | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | should | Ma’am = ma'am | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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