Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 57

You see the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis—”

Who acts: You, earth · What happens: see, take, turn round · To what, where: axis · 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, earth), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 earth	det
4	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 takes	nsubj
5	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	ccomp
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 four	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 twenty	punct
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hours	nummod
9	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 takes	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 turn	mark
11	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 takes	advcl
12	round	round	ADV	_	11 turn	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 axis	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 axis	nmod:poss
15	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turn	obl
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	You				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	take	present	the earth		hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	turn round	to-infinitive	the earth not said here	earth's axis		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on axis=Trajectory

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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