Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 52
I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.”
Who acts: I · What happens: think, know, begin · 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 could | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 think | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 knew | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 knew | advmod |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 think | parataxis |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 begin | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 begin | mark |
| 12 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 knew | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | begin | to-infinitive | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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