Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 76
“Do as I tell you, you coward!” and at last she spread out her hand again, and made another snatch in the air.
Who acts: you, Rabbit, Alice · What happens: do, tell, coward, spread out, make · To what, where: you, hand, last, snatch, air · 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, Rabbit, Alice), 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 | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 tell | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coward | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 coward | nsubj |
| 9 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spread | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spread | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spread | nsubj |
| 16 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 spread | compound:prt |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spread | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 spread | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | advcl |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 snatch | det |
| 25 | snatch | snatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 air | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 air | det |
| 28 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | the Rabbit = rabbit | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | coward in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | spread out | past | Alice | Alice's hand | last | again | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent hand=Theme at last=Destination | ||
| 5 | make | past | you not said here | another snatch | the air | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset snatch=Product |
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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