Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 84
Our family always _hated_ cats: nasty, low, vulgar things!
Who acts: family · What happens: hate · To what, where: cats
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 (family), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 family | nmod:poss |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hated | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 hated | advmod |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 hated | punct |
| 5 | hated | hate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 cats | punct |
| 7 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hated | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 nasty | punct |
| 9 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cats | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 low | punct |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nasty | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 things | punct |
| 13 | vulgar | vulgar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 nasty | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 hated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | participle | Our family | cats | always property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=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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