Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 26
“I know _something_ interesting is sure to happen,” she said to herself, “whenever I eat or drink anything; so I’ll just see what this bottle does.
Who acts: label, something, bottle · What happens: know, be, happen, say, eat, drink · To what, where: label, anything · 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, something, bottle), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 something | punct |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 sure | nsubj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 something | punct |
| 7 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sure | cop |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 know | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 happen | mark |
| 11 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sure | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 herself | case |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 see | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 see | punct |
| 20 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 eat | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 eat | nsubj |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | advcl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 drink | cc |
| 24 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 eat | conj |
| 25 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 drink | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 eat | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 see | advmod |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 see | nsubj |
| 29 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | aux |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 see | advmod |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | conj |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 see | obj |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 bottle | det |
| 34 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 does | nsubj |
| 35 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 what | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | label | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | something | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | happen in a quote | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | label | label | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | present | label | whenever property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | drink in a quote | present | label not said here | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 7 | see in a quote | future | label | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | do in a quote | present | this bottle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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