Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 13
“How surprised he’ll be when he finds out who I am!
Who acts: Mary, Alice · What happens: be, find out · 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 (Mary, Alice), 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 | _ | 3 surprised | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 surprised | advmod |
| 3 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 be | nsubj |
| 5 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 6 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 surprised | ccomp |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 finds | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 finds | nsubj |
| 9 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprised | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 finds | compound:prt |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 finds | ccomp |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 who | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 who | cop |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | future | Mary | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find out in a quote | present | Mary | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Alice | 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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