Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 18
“But perhaps he can’t help it,” she said to herself; “his eyes are so _very_ nearly at the top of his head.
Who acts: other, Alice, eyes · What happens: not help, say, be · To what, where: sky, Alice, top · 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 (other, Alice, eyes), 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 | _ | 7 help | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 help | cc |
| 3 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 help | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 help | nsubj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 help | advmod |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 so | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 so | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 so | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 so | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 said | parataxis |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 top | punct |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 nearly | advmod |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 very | punct |
| 24 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 27 top | advmod |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 so | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 head | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 head | nmod:poss |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 top | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help in a quote | can | other | sky | perhaps property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | other's eyes | the top of other's head | so property | tree rules |
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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