Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 27
Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning?
Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: let, think, be, get up · To what, where: me
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 (you, me, 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 same | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 same | cop |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 same | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 same | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 got | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 same | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 got | compound:prt |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 morning | det |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | me not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | I | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get up | past | I | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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