Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 39

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

Who acts: book · What happens: be, write · To what, where: book

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 (book), 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	4 be	expl
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 be	mark
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 be	nsubj
7	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 book	acl
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 written	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ought	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 ought	mark
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 ought	expl
13	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	parataxis
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	ought	a book			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	write	participle		a book not said here				about me	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about i=Topic

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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