Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 137

Who would not give all else for two p ennyworth only of beautiful Soup?

What happens: not give · To what, where: beautiful Soup

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: 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 give	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 else	advmod
6	else	else	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 p	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 p	nummod
9	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obl
10	ennyworth	ennyworth	ADV	_	14 Soup	advmod
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 Soup	advmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Soup	case
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Soup	amod
14	Soup	Soup	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 give	iobj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give	would			beautiful Soup			for two p; else property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent soup=Theme for p=Asset

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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