Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 10

And how odd the directions will look!

Who acts: directions · What happens: look

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (directions), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 look	cc
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 odd	advmod
3	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 directions	det
5	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 look	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 look	aux
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	future	the directions						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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