Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 76
“It goes on, you know,” the Hatter continued, “in this way:—
Who acts: song, you, Hatter · What happens: go on, know, continue · To what, where: way
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 (song, you, Hatter), 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 goes | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 continued | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 goes | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hatter | det |
| 11 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | nsubj |
| 12 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on in a quote | present | song | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | continue | past | the Hatter | this way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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