Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 5

I only wish people knew _that_: then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know—”

Who acts: I, people, you · What happens: wish, know, not be · To what, where: _ · 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, people, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wish	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 wish	advmod
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wish	ccomp
6	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 knew	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 _	nsubj
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 _	punct
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 stingy	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 stingy	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stingy	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stingy	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 stingy	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 stingy	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 stingy	advmod
16	stingy	stingy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wish	conj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stingy	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wish	parataxis
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know	past	people	_			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer _=Stimulus
3	not is	would	people		then	about Soup; stingy property	tree rules
4	know	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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