Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 118
I’d nearly forgotten that I’ve got to grow up again!
Who acts: I · What happens: forget, get, grow up · 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), 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 | 4 forgotten | nsubj |
| 2 | ’d | 'd | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | aux |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 forgotten | advmod |
| 4 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 got | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 7 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | aux |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 forgotten | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 grow | mark |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 got | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 grow | compound:prt |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 grow | advmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present | I | nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present · perfect | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | grow up | to-infinitive | I not said here | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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