Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 42

That’ll be a comfort, one way—never to be an old woman—but then—always to have lessons to learn!

Who acts: That · What happens: be, not be, have, learn · To what, where: comfort, old woman, lessons

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 (That), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 comfort	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 comfort	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 comfort	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 comfort	det
5	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 way	nummod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comfort	conj
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 woman	punct
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 woman	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	15 woman	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 woman	cop
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comfort	conj
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 have	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 have	advmod
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 have	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 have	mark
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 comfort	parataxis
23	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 learn	mark
25	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 lessons	acl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 comfort	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	future	That	a comfort and one way and a old woman			tree rules
2	not is a	to-infinitive	That not said here	a old woman			tree rules
3	have	to-infinitive		lessons	then	always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Patient
4	learn	to-infinitive		lessons not said here			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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