Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 17
“How queer it seems,” Alice said to herself, “to be going messages for a rabbit!
Who acts: it, Alice · What happens: queer, seem, say, go · To what, where: Alice, messages · 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 (it, 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 queer | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 queer | advmod |
| 3 | queer | queer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seems | nsubj |
| 5 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 queer | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 queer | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 queer | punct |
| 8 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 going | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 17 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 going | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 rabbit | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rabbit | det |
| 20 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 going | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | queer in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | seem in a quote | present | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Alice | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | to-infinitive · progressive | Alice not said here | messages | for a rabbit | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location message=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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