Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 119
Let me see—how _is_ it to be managed?
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, see, manage · To what, where: me
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 (you, me), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 _ | advmod |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 _ | cop |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 managed | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 managed | aux:pass |
| 12 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | me not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | manage | to-infinitive · passive | me not said here | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V» |
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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