Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 38

London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome—no, _that’s_ all wrong, I’m certain!

Who acts: London, Paris, I · What happens: be · To what, where: capital

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 (London, Paris, 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	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 capital	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 capital	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 capital	det
4	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Paris	case
6	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 capital	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 capital	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 capital	cc
9	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 capital	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 capital	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 capital	det
12	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 capital	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Rome	case
14	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 capital	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Rome	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Rome	cc
17	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Rome	conj
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 _	punct
19	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	21 _	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 _	punct
21	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 capital	parataxis
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 ’s	nsubj
23	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 _	acl:relcl
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 wrong	punct
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 wrong	advmod
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ’s	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ’m	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 ’m	nsubj
29	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 wrong	parataxis
30	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ’m	xcomp
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 capital	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	London	the capital	of Paris	tree rules
2	is a	present	Paris	the capital	of Rome and Rome	tree rules
3	be	present	I		certain property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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