Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 7

“You’re thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.

Who acts: You, that · What happens: think, make, forget, not talk · To what, where: you · 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 (You, that), 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	_	4 thinking	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thinking	nsubj
3	’re	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	aux
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 makes	csubj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 something	case
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 thinking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dear	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dear	nmod:poss
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 makes	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 makes	cc
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 makes	nsubj
13	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 makes	obj
15	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 makes	xcomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 talk	mark
17	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 forget	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present · progressive	You		about something	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about something=Topic
2	make in a quote	present	that	you		tree rules
3	forget in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
4	not talk in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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