Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 76
Let this be a lesson to you never to lose _your_ temper!”
Who acts: you, your · What happens: let, be, not lose, temper · To what, where: lesson, temper
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 (you, your), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 lesson | det |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lesson | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lesson | det |
| 5 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 6 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 10 lose | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 lose | nsubj |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 lose | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 lose | mark |
| 10 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 temper | punct |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 temper | nmod:poss |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 temper | punct |
| 14 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lose | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | this lesson | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not lose | to-infinitive | you | your temper | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | temper | your | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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