Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 22
The question is, what did the archbishop find?”
Who acts: archbishop · What happens: be, find · To what, where: question
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 (archbishop), 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 | 2 question | det |
| 2 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 question | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 find | obj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 archbishop | det |
| 8 | archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | nsubj |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 question | appos |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the question | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | past · do-support | the archbishop | the question | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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