Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 41
“But then,” thought Alice, “shall I _never_ get any older than I am now?
Who acts: Alice · What happens: think, not get · 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 (Alice), 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 | _ | 6 thought | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 thought | cc |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 thought | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 I | punct |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 get | advmod |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | any | any | ADV | _ | 17 older | advmod |
| 17 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 get | xcomp |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 am | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 am | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 older | advcl |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 get | advmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Alice | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not get in a quote | shall | Alice | now | old property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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