Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 77
‘Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Who acts: you · What happens: fly · To what, where: world
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 (you), 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 fly | punct |
| 2 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 7 fly | advmod |
| 3 | above | above | ADP | _ | 5 world | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fly | obl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 fly | nsubj |
| 7 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tray | punct |
| 9 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 13 tray | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tray | det |
| 11 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tray | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 tea | punct |
| 13 | tray | tray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fly | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sky | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sky | det |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tray | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | you | the world | like a tea tray in the sky | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent above world=Location |
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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