Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 93
I wonder if I shall ever see you any more!”
Who acts: I · What happens: wonder, see · To what, where: you
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wonder | nsubj |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wonder | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | any | any | ADV | _ | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 see | advmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see a condition, not said to happen | shall | I | you | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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