Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 141
I almost wish I’d gone to see the Hatter instead!”
Who acts: I · What happens: go, see · To what, where: Hatter
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 wish | advmod |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | ’d | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gone | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hatter | det |
| 10 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 8 see | advmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · perfect | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | the Hatter | instead property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hatter=Stimulus |
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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