Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 38

“You can really have no notion how delightful it will be When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!”

Who acts: You, Seals · What happens: have, be, throw · To what, where: notion, lobsters, us

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 (You, Seals), 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	_	5 have	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 notion	det
7	notion	notion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 delightful	advmod
9	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 have	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	expl
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 take	cop
13	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 take	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	nsubj
15	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	advcl
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 take	compound:prt
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 throw	cc
19	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 take	conj
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 throw	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lobsters	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 lobsters	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lobsters	det
24	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 throw	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sea	punct
26	out	out	ADV	_	28 sea	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 sea	case
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lobsters	conj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 lobsters	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	can	You	no notion		delightful property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=Patient
2	is in a quote	future	Seals = seal	notion		take property	tree rules
3	throw in a quote	infinitive	Seals = seal not said here	the lobsters and sea	us		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination lobster=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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