Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 100
“—so long as I get _somewhere_,” Alice added as an explanation.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: get, add · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 2 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 added | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | advcl |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | discourse |
| 9 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 get | advmod |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 added | nsubj |
| 14 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 explanation | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 explanation | det |
| 17 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 added | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present | Alice | somewhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | Alice | as a explanation; long property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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