Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 91
“Nobody seems to like her, down here, and I’m sure she’s the best cat in the world!
Who acts: Nobody, Dinah · What happens: seem, like, be · To what, where: Dinah, best cat, world · 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 (Nobody, Dinah), 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 | _ | 3 seems | punct |
| 2 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 like | mark |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seems | xcomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 like | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 down | punct |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 here | advmod |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 like | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’m | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ’m | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ’m | nsubj |
| 13 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seems | conj |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ’m | xcomp |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cat | nsubj |
| 16 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 cat | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cat | det |
| 18 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 cat | amod |
| 19 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cat | nmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | Nobody | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | like in a quote | to-infinitive | Nobody not said here | Dinah | here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | |||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | Dinah | sure property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Dinah | the best cat | the world | 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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