Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 51
Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope!
Who acts: I · What happens: wish, shut up · 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 wish | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 wish | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 shut | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 shut | aux |
| 8 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wish | ccomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 shut | compound:prt |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 telescope | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 telescope | det |
| 12 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shut | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shut up | could | I | like a telescope | vn subjugate-42.3 «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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