Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 83
And she’s such a capital one for catching mice you can’t think!
Who acts: Alice, you · What happens: be, catch, not think · To what, where: capital one, mice
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 (Alice, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 one | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 catching | mark |
| 9 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 one | advcl |
| 10 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 catching | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 12 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 think | advmod |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 mice | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Alice | such capital one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | gerund | Alice not said here | mice | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not think speech: other | can | you | mice not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mouse=Theme |
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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