Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 9
Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan!
Who acts: you · What happens: run, fetch · To what, where: pair, me
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 (you), 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 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 Run | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Run | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fetch | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fetch | cc |
| 7 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Run | parataxis |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 fetch | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pair | det |
| 10 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fetch | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gloves | case |
| 12 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pair | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fan | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fan | det |
| 15 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gloves | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | imperative | you not said here | moment | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fetch | infinitive | a pair of gloves and a fan | me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary pair=Theme |
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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