Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 81
_ I’m sure _I_ don’t want to stay in here any longer!”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not want, stay
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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 want | advcl |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’m | xcomp |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 want | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 want | aux |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 want | aux |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 want | advmod |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stay | mark |
| 12 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 want | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 here | case |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 stay | obl |
| 15 | any | any | ADV | _ | 16 longer | advmod |
| 16 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 stay | advmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | I | sure property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not want | do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in here=Location |
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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