Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 5
She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!
Who acts: She, me · What happens: get, execute, be · To what, where: me, ferrets
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 (She, me), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 get | obj |
| 5 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 get | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 sure | advmod |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 get | advcl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 ferrets | case |
| 10 | ferrets | ferret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ferrets | obl |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ferrets | cop |
| 12 | ferrets | ferret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sure | ccomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | future | She | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | execute | participle | me not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | She not said here | ferrets | as ferrets | tree rules |
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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