Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 103
“What sort of people live about here?”
Who acts: sort · What happens: live, sort · To what, where: people
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 (sort), 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 | _ | 6 live | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 sort | det |
| 3 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sort | nmod |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 here | case |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 live | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present | what sort of people | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about here=Location | |||||
| 2 | sort in a quote | people | nom sort «cognition 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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