Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 4
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation.
Who acts: This · What happens: encourage, not be · To what, where: encouraging opening
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 (This), 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 opening | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opening | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 opening | advmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 opening | det |
| 5 | encouraging | encourage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 opening | amod |
| 6 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 conversation | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 conversation | det |
| 9 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opening | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 opening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encourage | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | not is a | past | This | a encouraging opening | for a conversation | 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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