Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 38
There are no mice in the air, I’m afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that’s very like a mouse, you know.
Who acts: mice, I, you · What happens: be, catch, know · To what, where: air, bat
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 (mice, I, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 mice | det |
| 4 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 are | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’m | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ’m | nsubj |
| 10 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | parataxis |
| 11 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ’m | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 catch | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 catch | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 catch | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 catch | aux |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ’m | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bat | det |
| 18 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 catch | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ’s | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ’s | cc |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 ’s | nsubj |
| 22 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | conj |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 mouse | advmod |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 mouse | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 mouse | det |
| 26 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ’s | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 know | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 know | nsubj |
| 29 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 ’s | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | no mice | the air; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | present | I | afraid property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | might | you | a bat | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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