Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 94
“I’ve read that in some book, but I don’t remember where.”
Who acts: Alice · What happens: have, read, not remember
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice), 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 ’ve | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’ve | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ’ve | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 book | mark |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 book | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 book | det |
| 8 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | obl:agent |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 remember | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 remember | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 remember | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 remember | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 remember | advmod |
| 14 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ’ve | conj |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 remember | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Alice | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | read in a quote | participle | Alice not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not remember in a quote | present · do-support | Alice | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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