Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 30
“I shall sit here,” he said, “on and off, for days and days.”
Who acts: dreadful · What happens: sit, say · 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 (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 | “ | " | 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 | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sit | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sit | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 on | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 on | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 off | cc |
| 14 | off | off | ADV | _ | 12 on | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 days | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sit | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 days | cc |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 days | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | shall | dreadful | here | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | dreadful | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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