Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 45

Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?

Who acts: you · What happens: 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: who acts (you), 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	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 join	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 join	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 you	punct
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 join	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 you	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 wo	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wo	punct
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wo	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 will	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 you	punct
11	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 you	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 you	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 you	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wo	punct
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 join	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 join	nsubj
17	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dance	det
19	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 join	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 join	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	future	you	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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