Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 72

So she began again: “Où est ma chatte?” which was the first sentence in her French lesson-book.

Who acts: Alice, Où est ma chatte · What happens: begin, be · To what, where: first sentence, French lesson book

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, Où est ma chatte), 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	again	again	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 chatte	punct
7	Où	Où	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 chatte	compound
8	est	est	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chatte	compound
9	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chatte	compound
10	chatte	chatte	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 chatte	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 chatte	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sentence	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sentence	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sentence	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 sentence	amod
17	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chatte	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	23 book	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 book	nmod:poss
20	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 book	amod
21	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 book	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 lesson	punct
23	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sentence	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Alice				again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	is a	past	Où est ma chatte	the first sentence		Alice's French lesson book			tree rules

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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