Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 56
“Just think of what work it would make with the day and night!
Who acts: you, opportunity · What happens: think, make · 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 (you, opportunity), 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 | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 think | advmod |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 what | case |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 make | obj |
| 6 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | aux |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | aux |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 night | cc |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 day | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | would · present | opportunity | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material what=Product |
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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