Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 20
“I shall sit here,” the Footman remarked, “till tomorrow—”
Who acts: Footman · What happens: sit, remark · 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 (Footman), 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 | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sit | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sit | aux |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 remarked | ccomp |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sit | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Footman | det |
| 9 | Footman | Footman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 remarked | nsubj |
| 10 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tomorrow | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 tomorrow | punct |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 14 tomorrow | case |
| 14 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remarked | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 remarked | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | shall | the Footman = footman | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | past | the Footman | tomorrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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