Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 120

I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other; but the great question is, what?”

Who acts: I · What happens: suppose, eat, drink, be · To what, where: something, great question

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	2 suppose	nsubj
2	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ought	nsubj
4	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 suppose	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ought	xcomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 drink	cc
8	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 eat	conj
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 drink	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 other	cc
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 something	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 question	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 question	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 question	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 question	amod
16	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 suppose	parataxis
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 question	cop
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 what	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 question	appos
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 what	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 question	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	suppose	present	I		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	eat	to-infinitive	I not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	infinitive	I not said here	something	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
4	is a	present		the great question	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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