Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 14

However, she did not like to be rude, so she bore it as well as she could.

Who acts: Duchess · What happens: not like, be, bear · To what, where: chin

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 (Duchess), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 like	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 like	advmod
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 rude	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 rude	cop
9	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 like	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bore	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 bore	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bore	nsubj
13	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bore	obj
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 well	advmod
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 bore	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 could	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 could	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 well	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	Duchess		however property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Duchess not said here		rude property	tree rules
3	bear	past	Duchess	chin	well property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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