Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 50
“How _can_ I have done that?” she thought.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: do, think · To what, where: that · 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 (Alice), 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 | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 can | advmod |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 can | punct |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 can | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 done | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 thought | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 done | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can · perfect | Alice | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Alice | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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