Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 73
“Sure, it does, yer honour: but it’s an arm for all that.”
Who acts: size · What happens: do, be · To what, where: yer honour, arm
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 (size), 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 | _ | 5 does | punct |
| 2 | Sure | sure | INTJ | _ | 5 does | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sure | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 does | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 honour | punct |
| 7 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 honour | amod |
| 8 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 does | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 arm | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 arm | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 arm | nsubj |
| 12 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 arm | cop |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 arm | det |
| 14 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 does | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 arm | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 all | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 arm | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | size | yer honour | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | size | a arm | for all | 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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