Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 18
I suppose Dinah’ll be sending me on messages next!”
Who acts: I, Dinah · What happens: suppose, send · To what, where: me, 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 (I, Dinah), 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 | Dinah | Dinah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sending | nsubj |
| 4 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sending | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sending | aux |
| 6 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 suppose | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sending | iobj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 messages | case |
| 9 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sending | obl |
| 10 | next | next | ADV | _ | 6 sending | advmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 suppose | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send | future · progressive | Dinah | me | messages | next property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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