Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 78
“What a number of cucumber-frames there must be!” thought Alice.
Who acts: number, Alice · What happens: be, think · 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 (number, 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 | _ | 11 be | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 number | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 number | det |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 be | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 frames | case |
| 6 | cucumber | cucumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 frames | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 cucumber | punct |
| 8 | frames | frame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 number | nmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 be | expl |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 be | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 be | punct |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | must | what number of cucumber frames | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
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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