Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 30

You must have meant some mischief, or else you'd have signed your name like an honest man.»

Who acts: You, your · What happens: mean, sign, name · To what, where: mischief, name

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 meant	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 meant	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 meant	aux
4	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 mischief	det
6	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meant	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 signed	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 signed	cc
9	else	else	ADV	_	13 signed	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 signed	nsubj
11	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 signed	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 signed	aux
13	signed	sign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 meant	conj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 name	nmod:poss
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 signed	obj
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 man	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 signed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	must · perfect	You	some mischief		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Topic
2	sign	would · perfect	you	your name	like a honest man; else property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Destination
3	name		your			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:30.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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