Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 41

Do cats eat bats?” and sometimes, “Do bats eat cats?” for, you see, as she couldn’t answer either question, it didn’t much matter which way she put it.

Who acts: cats, bats, you, bat · What happens: eat, see, not answer, put · To what, where: bats, cats, question, cat · 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 (cats, bats, you, bat), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 eat	cc
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 eat	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
11	Do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 eat	aux
12	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eat	nsubj
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 eat	conj
14	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eat	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	13 eat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
20	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 answer	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 answer	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 answer	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 answer	aux
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 answer	advmod
26	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 see	conj
27	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	28 question	det
28	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 answer	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 matter	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 matter	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 matter	aux
32	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADV	_	34 matter	advmod
34	matter	mat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 answer	parataxis
35	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	36 way	det
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 matter	obl:unmarked
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 put	nsubj
38	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 way	acl:relcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 put	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present · do-support	cats	bats		tree rules
2	eat	infinitive · do-support	bats	cats	sometimes property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient
3	see in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not answer speech: assert in a quote	could	bat	either question		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
5	put in a quote	past	bat	cat		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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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