Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 101
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”
Who acts: you, Cat · What happens: be, do, say, walk · To what, where: that · 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 (you, Cat), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 ’re | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ’re | nsubj |
| 5 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ’re | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’re | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’re | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Cat | det |
| 14 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 walk | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 walk | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 walk | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 walk | nsubj |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 walk | advmod |
| 20 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 walk | advmod |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 21 long | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | you | sure property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | walk a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | long property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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