Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 25
There was no label this time with the words “DRINK ME,” but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips.
Who acts: label · What happens: be, drink, uncork, put · To what, where: Alice, room · 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 (label), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 label | det |
| 4 | label | label | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 words | det |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 time | nmod |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 DRINK | punct |
| 11 | DRINK | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 12 | ME | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 DRINK | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 DRINK | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 DRINK | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 uncorked | cc |
| 16 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 18 uncorked | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 uncorked | nsubj |
| 18 | uncorked | uncork | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 uncorked | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 uncorked | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 lips | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lips | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 put | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no label | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drink in a quote | infinitive | Alice | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||||
| 3 | uncork | past | label | room | nevertheless property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | put | infinitive | label not said here | room | to label's lips | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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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