Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 21

Old words in today's English: "grave" = serious, "solemnly" = very seriously, "venture to ask" = dare to ask, "you can't think" = you can't imagine.

Who acts: you · What happens: venture, ask, dare, not think, not imagine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» 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), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	amod
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 English	case
4	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 English	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 today	case
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 words	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 words	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 grave	punct
9	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 grave	punct
11	=	=	PUNCT	_	22 venture	punct
12	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 venture	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 solemnly	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 solemnly	punct
15	solemnly	solemnly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 serious	appos
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 solemnly	punct
17	=	=	PUNCT	_	19 seriously	punct
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 seriously	advmod
19	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	12 serious	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seriously	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 venture	punct
22	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 words	appos
23	to	to	PART	_	24 ask	mark
24	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 venture	xcomp
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 venture	punct
26	=	=	PUNCT	_	22 venture	punct
27	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 venture	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 ask	mark
29	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 dare	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 words	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 think	punct
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 think	nsubj
33	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 think	aux
34	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 think	advmod
35	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 words	parataxis
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 think	punct
37	=	=	PUNCT	_	41 imagine	punct
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 imagine	nsubj
39	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 imagine	aux
40	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 imagine	advmod
41	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 think	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	venture in a quote	infinitive		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dare	infinitive		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not think speech: other in a quote	can	you	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not imagine	can	you	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:21.

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): R6-punct-agree ×4. 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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