Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 2
The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life.
Who acts: first question, animals, it, Alice · What happens: be, have, seem, find, talk, know · To what, where: consultation, Alice, animals, course
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first question, animals, it, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 question | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 question | amod |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 course | case |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 question | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 get | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 get | xcomp |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 get | advmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 consultation | det |
| 17 | consultation | consultation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 this | case |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 consultation | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 seemed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 seemed | cc |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 minutes | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 minutes | det |
| 24 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 minutes | amod |
| 25 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 seemed | obl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 seemed | nsubj |
| 27 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | parataxis |
| 28 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 29 natural | advmod |
| 29 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 seemed | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Alice | case |
| 31 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 natural | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 find | mark |
| 33 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 natural | advcl |
| 34 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 find | obj |
| 35 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 find | xcomp |
| 36 | familiarly | familiarly | ADV | _ | 35 talking | advmod |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 them | case |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 talking | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 known | punct |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 known | mark |
| 41 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 known | mark |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 known | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 known | aux |
| 44 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 seemed | conj |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 known | obj |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 life | det:predet |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 life | nmod:poss |
| 48 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 known | obl:unmarked |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the first question of course | again | dry, get property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | animals = animal | a consultation | about this | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consultation=Patient | |||
| 3 | seem | past | it | minute | natural property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | Alice | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | talk | gerund | Alice not said here | with animals = animal; familiarly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | know a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Alice | animals = animal | Alice's life obl:unmarked | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | question | course | nom question «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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