Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 88

It’s high time you were all in bed!”

Who acts: Canary · What happens: be · To what, where: bed

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 (Canary), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bed	nsubj
2	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bed	cop
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bed	nsubj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 bed	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bed	cop
7	all	all	ADV	_	9 bed	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 bed	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 bed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Canary			bed		all property	tree rules

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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