Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 24
This sounded promising, certainly: Alice turned and came back again.
Who acts: sounded promising · What happens: sound, turn, come back
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: who acts (sounded promising), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 promising | det |
| 2 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 promising | amod |
| 3 | promising | promising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 certainly | punct |
| 5 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 3 promising | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 promising | punct |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | participle | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | turn | past | this sounded promising | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come back | past | this sounded promising not said here | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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