Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 41

Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance.

What happens: not join · To what, where: dance

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	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 join	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Would	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 could	punct
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Would	conj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 could	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 would	punct
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 could	conj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 would	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Would	punct
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 join	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 could	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 could	punct
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 join	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 join	advmod
15	join	join	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dance	det
17	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 join	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 join	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not join	could		the dance					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Patient

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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