Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 22
“—or next day, maybe,” the Footman continued in the same tone, exactly as if nothing had happened.
Who acts: Footman, nothing · What happens: continue, happen · To what, where: same tone
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, nothing), 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 | _ | 12 continued | punct |
| 2 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 day | cc |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 7 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 5 day | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Footman | det |
| 11 | Footman | Footman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | nsubj |
| 12 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 tone | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tone | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tone | amod |
| 16 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 happened | punct |
| 18 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 23 happened | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 happened | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 happened | mark |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 happened | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 happened | aux |
| 23 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 continued | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the Footman | the same tone | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | happen a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | nothing | exactly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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