Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 67
“Now tell me, Pat, what’s that in the window?”
Who acts: you · What happens: tell · To what, where: Pat, Rabbit · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tell | advmod |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pat | punct |
| 6 | Pat | Pat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 window | nsubj |
| 9 | ’s | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 window | nsubj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 window | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 window | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 window | det |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Pat | the Rabbit = rabbit | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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