Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 63

“I can tell you more than that, if you like,” said the Gryphon.

Who acts: Gryphon, you · What happens: tell, like, say · To what, where: more, you · 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 (Gryphon, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 tell	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 more	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 like	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
12	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Gryphon	det
17	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	the Gryphon = gryphon	more	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient more=Topic
2	like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	say speech: assert	past	the Gryphon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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