Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 80
As for pulling me out of the window, I only wish they _could!
Who acts: I · What happens: pull, wish · To what, where: me, window
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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 pulling | mark |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 wish | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pulling | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulling | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 wish | advmod |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 could | nsubj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 could | punct |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wish | ccomp |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | gerund | I not said here | me | the window | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out window=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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