Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 29
“I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and, what’s more, I don’t believe you do either!”
Who acts: Eaglet, you · What happens: not know, not believe, do, mean · To what, where: meaning, long words · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Eaglet, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 meaning | det |
| 7 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 9 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 12 words | det:predet |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 words | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 words | amod |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 meaning | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 believe | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 believe | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ’s | punct |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 ’s | nsubj |
| 17 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 believe | advcl |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 ’s | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ’s | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 believe | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 believe | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 believe | advmod |
| 23 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 believe | ccomp |
| 26 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 do | advmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the Eaglet = eaglet | the meaning of half long words | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not believe in a quote | present · do-support | the Eaglet = eaglet | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | you | either property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mean in a quote | half long words | nom meaning «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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