Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 25
“That’s the first question, you know.”
Who acts: That, you · What happens: be, know · To what, where: first question
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 (That, you), 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 | _ | 6 question | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 question | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 question | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 question | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 question | amod |
| 6 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 question | parataxis |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 question | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 question | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | the first question | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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