Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 27
I do hope it’ll make me grow large again, for really I’m quite tired of being such a tiny little thing!”
Who acts: I, bottle, me · What happens: hope, make, grow, be · To what, where: me · 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, bottle, me), 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 | 3 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hope | aux |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | nsubj |
| 5 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hope | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | xcomp |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grow | xcomp |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 grow | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’m | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 really | case |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 ’m | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ’m | nsubj |
| 15 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | conj |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 tired | advmod |
| 17 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ’m | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 thing | case |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 thing | cop |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 thing | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 thing | det |
| 22 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thing | amod |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thing | amod |
| 24 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tired | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present · do-support | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | future | bottle | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | infinitive | me not said here | again | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | be | present | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | gerund | of such tiny little thing | 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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