Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 109

“You couldn’t have wanted it much,” said Alice; “living at the bottom of the sea.”

Who acts: You, Alice · What happens: not want, say, live · To what, where: music, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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	_	6 wanted	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wanted	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wanted	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	aux
6	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	obj
8	much	much	ADV	_	6 wanted	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 living	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 living	punct
15	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 bottom	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bottom	det
18	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 living	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 sea	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sea	det
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bottom	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not want in a quote	could · perfect	You	music		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	live in a quote	gerund	Alice not said here		the bottom of the sea	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=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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