Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 40
And when I grow up, I’ll write one—but I’m grown up now,” she added in a sorrowful tone; “at least there’s no room to grow up any more _here_.”
Who acts: I, book · What happens: grow up, write, add · To what, where: one, sorrowful tone
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, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 write | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 grow | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 write | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 grow | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grow | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 write | nsubj |
| 8 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 write | aux |
| 9 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 write | obj |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 grown | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 grown | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 grown | nsubj |
| 14 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 grown | aux |
| 15 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 write | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 grown | compound:prt |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 grown | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 added | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 added | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 added | nsubj |
| 21 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 grown | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 tone | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tone | det |
| 24 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tone | amod |
| 25 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 added | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 ’s | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 ’s | punct |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 least | case |
| 29 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 ’s | obl |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 ’s | expl |
| 31 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 write | conj |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 room | det |
| 33 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ’s | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 grow | mark |
| 35 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 room | acl |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 grow | compound:prt |
| 37 | any | any | ADV | _ | 38 more | advmod |
| 38 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 grow | advmod |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 here | punct |
| 40 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 ’s | parataxis |
| 41 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 here | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 write | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 write | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | present | I | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | write | future | I | one | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow up | present · passive | I | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | book | a sorrowful tone | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | grow up | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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