Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 66
So she began: “O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool?
Who acts: use, you · What happens: begin, know · To what, where: O Mouse, way, pool
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 (use, you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mouse | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mouse | punct |
| 6 | O | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Mouse | compound |
| 7 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Mouse | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 pool | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 pool | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 pool | det |
| 17 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | use | O Mouse | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | the way | this pool | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
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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