Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 3

“When _I’m_ a Duchess,” she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen _at all_.

Who acts: Duchess · What happens: be, _, say, not have · To what, where: Duchess, hopeful tone, pepper, kitchen · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
2	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 ’m	mark
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 When	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ’m	nsubj
5	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
6	_	_	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 ’m	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Duchess	det
8	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 _	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ’m	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 ’m	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 herself	case
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tone	punct
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 tone	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 tone	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 tone	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tone	det
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 hopeful	advmod
21	hopeful	hopeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tone	amod
22	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
23	though	though	ADV	_	22 tone	advmod
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 though	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
28	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 have	advmod
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 pepper	det
32	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 kitchen	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 kitchen	nmod:poss
35	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obl
36	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 all	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 _	obl
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	Duchess				tree rules
2	_ in a quote	gerund	Duchess not said here	a Duchess			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Duchess		Duchess	a hopeful tone	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not have in a quote	future	Duchess	any pepper		my kitchen	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pepper=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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