Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 89
I wouldn’t be in Bill’s place for a good deal: this fireplace is narrow, to be sure; but I _think_ I can kick a little!”
Who acts: I, fireplace · What happens: not be, be, think, kick · To what, where: place, little
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, fireplace), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 place | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 place | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 place | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 6 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Bill | case |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 deal | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 deal | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deal | amod |
| 12 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 narrow | punct |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 fireplace | det |
| 15 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 narrow | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 narrow | cop |
| 17 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 place | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sure | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 sure | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sure | cop |
| 21 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 narrow | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 think | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 think | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 think | nsubj |
| 25 | _ | _ | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 think | aux |
| 26 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 narrow | parataxis |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 kick | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 kick | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 kick | aux |
| 30 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 think | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 little | det |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 kick | obj |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | would | I | Bill's place | for a good deal | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | this fireplace | narrow property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | this fireplace not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | kick | can | I | a little | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent little=Patient |
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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