Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 50

“I don’t know where Dinn may be,” said the Mock Turtle, “but if you’ve seen them so often, of course you know what they’re like.”

Who acts: Mock Turtle, Dinn, you, England · What happens: not know, be, say, see, know · To what, where: England · 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, Dinn, you, England), 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 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 be	advmod
7	Dinn	Dinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 be	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 be	aux
9	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 know	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Turtle	det
14	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Turtle	compound
15	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seen	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 seen	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 seen	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 seen	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 seen	nsubj
21	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	aux
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seen	obj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 often	advmod
25	often	often	ADV	_	22 seen	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
27	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	30 know	advmod
28	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 of	fixed
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
30	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	conj
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 ’re	obj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ’re	nsubj
33	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 know	ccomp
34	like	like	INTJ	_	33 ’re	discourse
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know in a quote	present · do-support	the Mock Turtle = turtle			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be in a quote	may	Dinn			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Mock Turtle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · perfect	you	England	often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
5	know in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	be in a quote	present	England			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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