Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 87
So Bill’s got to come down the chimney, has he?” said Alice to herself.
Who acts: Bill, Alice · What happens: get, come down, have, say · To what, where: chimney, Bill, Alice · 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 (Bill, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chimney | det |
| 9 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 has | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 herself | case |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 said | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · passive | Bill | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come down | to-infinitive | Bill not said here | the chimney | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | present | Bill not said here | Bill | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Alice | Alice | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic |
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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