Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 4
“Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears?
Who acts: I · What happens: wonder, put · To what, where: dears, shoes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 wonder | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 10 wonder | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feet | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feet | amod |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Oh | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 wonder | nsubj |
| 10 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 put | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 put | aux |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wonder | ccomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 shoes | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 put | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stockings | cc |
| 18 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shoes | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obl |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 put | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dears | punct |
| 23 | dears | dear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 put | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | put in a quote | future | dears | your shoes and stockings | now | for you | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination |
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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