Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 8

I can’t tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.”

Who acts: I · What happens: not tell, be, remember · To what, where: you, moral, bit · 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), 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	4 tell	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 what	advmod
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 what	advmod
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moral	det
10	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 that	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 moral	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 what	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 remember	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 remember	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 remember	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 remember	aux
18	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 remember	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 bit	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bit	det
22	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 remember	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is a	present					now	tree rules
3	remember	shall	I	moral		a bit		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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