Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 36
I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life!
Who acts: I, that, bottle, you · What happens: wish, not go down, hole, be, know, sort · To what, where: sort, life · 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, that, bottle, you), 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 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 wish | advmod |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 gone | advmod |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 gone | compound:prt |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hole | nsubj |
| 10 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hole | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 rabbit | punct |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | parataxis |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 yet | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 yet | cc |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 3 wish | advmod |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 yet | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 yet | cc |
| 18 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 yet | conj |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 curious | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 curious | nsubj |
| 21 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 curious | cop |
| 22 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 23 curious | advmod |
| 23 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wish | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 know | nsubj |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 curious | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sort | punct |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 sort | det |
| 29 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 know | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 life | case |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sort | nmod |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | yet | almost property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | not go down | past · perfect | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | hole | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | bottle | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | present | you | this sort of life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | sort | life | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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