Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 110
I think that will be the best plan.”
Who acts: I, that · What happens: think, be · To what, where: best plan · 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 (I, that), 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 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 plan | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 plan | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 plan | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plan | det |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 plan | amod |
| 8 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 think | ccomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | future | that | the best plan | 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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