Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 6
Where _can_ I have dropped them, I wonder?”
Who acts: I · What happens: drop, wonder · To what, where: _
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), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 dropped | advmod |
| 2 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 can | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 dropped | aux |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 dropped | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dropped | aux |
| 7 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 wonder | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dropped | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dropped | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wonder | nsubj |
| 11 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 wonder | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | can · perfect | I | _ | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: 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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