Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 29
The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for repeating his remark, with variations.
Who acts: Footman, good opportunity, dreadful · What happens: seem, think, repeat, remark · To what, where: this, remark
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, good opportunity, dreadful), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Footman | det |
| 2 | Footman | Footman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 think | mark |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 think | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 opportunity | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 opportunity | amod |
| 9 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | obj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 repeating | mark |
| 11 | repeating | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 opportunity | acl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 remark | nmod:poss |
| 13 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 repeating | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 variations | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 variations | case |
| 16 | variations | variation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 remark | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the Footman | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the Footman not said here | this | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme opportunity=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | repeat | gerund | a good opportunity not said here | dreadful's remark and variations | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | remark | dreadful | nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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