Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 34
I’ll try if I know all the things I used to know.
Who acts: I · What happens: try, know, use · To what, where: things
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 (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 | 3 try | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | aux |
| 3 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | advcl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 things | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 things | det |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 know | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 used | nsubj |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 things | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 know | mark |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 used | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | future | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen | present | I | all things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | use | past | I | all things not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thing=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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