Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 21
Oh! won’t she be savage if I’ve kept her waiting!”
Who acts: Alice, I · What happens: not be, have, keep, wait · To what, where: waiting
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 (Alice, 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 | _ | 7 savage | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 savage | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 savage | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 savage | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 savage | cop |
| 7 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 ’ve | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ’ve | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 kept | advcl |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 savage | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 waiting | nmod:poss |
| 13 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 savage | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 savage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | Alice | savage property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | past | Alice not said here | Alice's waiting | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waiting=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wait | Alice | nom waiting «act intransitive»: poss=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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