Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 125
“And so these three little sisters—they were learning to draw, you know—”
Who acts: these, sisters, three little sisters · What happens: sister, learn, draw, know
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, sisters, three little sisters), 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 | _ | 7 sisters | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sisters | cc |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 sisters | advmod |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 sisters | nsubj |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sisters | nummod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sisters | amod |
| 7 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 know | nsubj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 learning | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 learning | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 learning | aux |
| 11 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sisters | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 draw | mark |
| 13 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 learning | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sisters | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sister in a quote | these | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | learn in a quote | past · progressive | sisters = sister | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | draw in a quote | to-infinitive | sisters = sister not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | three little sisters | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/125/