Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 89
A little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly brown hair!
Who acts: you · What happens: know · To what, where: such long curly brown hair
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 terrier | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 terrier | amod |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyed | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 bright | punct |
| 5 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 terrier | amod |
| 6 | terrier | terrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 terrier | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hair | punct |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 18 hair | mark |
| 12 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 18 hair | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 oh | punct |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hair | amod |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hair | amod |
| 16 | curly | curly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hair | amod |
| 17 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hair | amod |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 terrier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | such long curly brown hair | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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