Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 127
“I’d nearly forgotten to ask.”
What happens: forget, not ask · To what, where: Cat
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: 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 | _ | 5 forgotten | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 forgotten | nsubj |
| 3 | ’d | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 forgotten | advmod |
| 5 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ask | mark |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forgotten | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget in a quote | past · passive | the Cat = cat | nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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