Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 107

“I should like to have it explained,” said the Mock Turtle.

Who acts: Mock Turtle, way · What happens: like, have, explain, say · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mock Turtle, way), 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 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	obj
8	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 have	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Turtle	det
13	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Turtle	compound
14	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like in a quote	should	the Mock Turtle = turtle		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Mock Turtle = turtle not said here	way	tree rules
3	explain speech: assert in a quote	participle	way not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the Mock Turtle		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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