Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 98
If they had any sense, they’d take the roof off.”
Who acts: shriek · What happens: have, take off · To what, where: sense, roof
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 (shriek), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 had | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 sense | det |
| 5 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 take | nsubj |
| 8 | ’d | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roof | det |
| 11 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 take | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | shriek | any sense | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take off | would | shriek | the roof | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=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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