Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 90
“But what happens when you come to the beginning again?”
Who acts: you · What happens: happen, come · To what, where: beginning
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 | _ | 4 happens | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 happens | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happens | nsubj |
| 4 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 come | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happens | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 beginning | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beginning | det |
| 10 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happens | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | you | to the beginning; again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beginning=Initial_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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