Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 115
How puzzling all these changes are!
What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 puzzling | advmod |
| 2 | puzzling | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 changes | det:predet |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 changes | det |
| 5 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 puzzling | obj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 puzzling | cop |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 puzzling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | puzzle property | tree rules |
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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