Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 18
Which brought them back again to the beginning of the conversation.
What happens: bring back, begin · To what, where: Caterpillar, beginning, conversation
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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 brought | advmod |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 brought | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 beginning | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beginning | det |
| 8 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 conversation | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 conversation | det |
| 11 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beginning | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | past | Caterpillar | to the beginning of the conversation; again | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to beginning=Destination | ||||
| 2 | begin | the conversation | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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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