Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 60
“I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!
Who acts: Alice · What happens: punish, suppose, drown · To what, where: Alice, own tears · 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 | _ | 5 punished | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 punished | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 punished | aux:pass |
| 5 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 punished | obl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 punished | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 suppose | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 suppose | nsubj |
| 11 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 punished | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drowned | punct |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 drowned | mark |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 drowned | aux:pass |
| 15 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 suppose | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tears | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 tears | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tears | amod |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drowned | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 punished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish in a quote | shall · passive | Alice | now | for way | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Patient for it=Theme | |||
| 2 | suppose in a quote | present | Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drown in a quote | gerund · passive | my own tears | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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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