Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 39
“I make you a present of everything I’ve said as yet.”
Who acts: Duchess · What happens: make, say · To what, where: present, you, Duchess · 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 | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 present | det |
| 6 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 everything | case |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 present | nmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | aux:pass |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 everything | acl:relcl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 yet | case |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | the Duchess = duchess | a present of everything | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary present=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · passive | the Duchess = duchess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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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