Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 35

“I think I should understand that better,” Alice said very politely, “if I had it written down: but I can’t quite follow it as you say it.”

Who acts: I, Alice, you · What happens: think, understand, say, write down, not follow · To what, where: moral · 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 (I, Alice, you), 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	_	3 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 understand	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 think	ccomp
7	that	that	ADV	_	8 better	advmod
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 understand	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	parataxis
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 politely	advmod
14	politely	politely	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 written	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 written	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 written	aux
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	obj
21	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 written	compound:prt
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 follow	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 follow	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 follow	nsubj
26	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 follow	aux
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 follow	advmod
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 follow	advmod
29	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 follow	obj
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 say	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 say	nsubj
33	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 follow	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 say	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	understand in a quote	should	I		good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	Alice		politely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	write down in a quote	past · perfect				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not follow in a quote	can	Alice	moral		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you	moral		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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