Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 104
“If I eat one of these cakes,” she thought, “it’s sure to make _some_ change in my size; and as it can’t possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose.”
Who acts: idea, it, _, head · What happens: eat, think, be, make, change, not make · To what, where: one, size, idea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea, it, _, head), 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 | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 eat | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | advcl |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 eat | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cakes | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 cakes | det |
| 8 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sure | nsubj |
| 16 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sure | cop |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thought | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sure | xcomp |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 _ | det |
| 22 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 change | nsubj |
| 23 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 size | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 size | nmod:poss |
| 26 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 change | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 make | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 make | cc |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 make | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 make | nsubj |
| 31 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 make | aux |
| 32 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 make | advmod |
| 33 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 34 make | advmod |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 make | obj |
| 36 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 make | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 make | nsubj |
| 39 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 make | aux |
| 40 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 make | conj |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 make | obj |
| 42 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 make | xcomp |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 suppose | punct |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 suppose | nsubj |
| 45 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | idea | one of this cakes | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | idea | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | it | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | change in a quote | present | some _ | my size | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not make in a quote | can | head | idea | large, possibly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product | |||
| 7 | make in a quote | must | head | idea | small property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product | |||
| 8 | suppose in a quote | present | idea | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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