Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 6
I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can;—but I must be kind to them,” thought Alice, “or perhaps they won’t walk the way I want to go!
Who acts: I, you, kind, dears, way · What happens: be, manage, think, not walk, want, go · To what, where: great deal, best way, dears, Alice, way · 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, you, kind, dears), 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 | 6 deal | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 deal | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 deal | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 deal | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deal | amod |
| 6 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 far | advmod |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 off | advmod |
| 9 | off | off | ADV | _ | 6 deal | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 trouble | mark |
| 11 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deal | advcl |
| 12 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 trouble | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 trouble | nmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 manage | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 manage | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 manage | aux |
| 18 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 deal | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 way | amod |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 manage | obj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 can | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 way | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 manage | punct |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 kind | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 kind | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 kind | nsubj |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 kind | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 kind | cop |
| 30 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 thought | nsubj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 kind | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 kind | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 kind | punct |
| 35 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 deal | parataxis |
| 36 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 thought | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 walk | punct |
| 38 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 walk | punct |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 walk | cc |
| 40 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 44 walk | advmod |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 walk | nsubj |
| 42 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 walk | aux |
| 43 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 walk | advmod |
| 44 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 Alice | parataxis |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 way | det |
| 46 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 walk | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 want | nsubj |
| 48 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 way | acl:relcl |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 go | mark |
| 50 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 want | xcomp |
| 51 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | I | a great deal | off property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | manage | must | you | the best way | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | must | I | dears = dear | kind property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | past | kind | Alice | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot alice=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not walk | future | dears = dear | the way | perhaps property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | want | present | I | the way not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the way not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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