Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 85
Why, she’ll eat a little bird as soon as look at it!”
Who acts: Alice · What happens: eat, look · To what, where: little bird
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), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 eat | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | ’ll | 'll | ADV | _ | 5 eat | advmod |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bird | amod |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 look | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 look | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Alice | a little bird | 'll property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | |||
| 2 | look | imperative | at pet; soon property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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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