Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 88
“Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill!
Who acts: Sounds · What happens: seem, put · To what, where: everything
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 (Sounds), 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 Shy | punct |
| 2 | Shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seem | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seem | nsubj |
| 5 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Shy | parataxis |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seem | xcomp |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 Bill | case |
| 10 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | Sounds = sound | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | put in a quote | to-infinitive | Sounds = sound not said here | everything | upon Bill | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme upon bill=Destination |
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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