Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 43
“I keep them to sell,” the Hatter added as an explanation; “I’ve none of my own.
Who acts: Hatter, King · What happens: keep, sell, add, have · To what, where: King, none · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hatter, King), 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 | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sell | mark |
| 6 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hatter | det |
| 10 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 added | nsubj |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | parataxis |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 explanation | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 explanation | det |
| 14 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 added | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 ’ve | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 ’ve | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ’ve | nsubj |
| 18 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | conj |
| 19 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 18 ’ve | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 own | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 own | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 none | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | present | the Hatter = hatter | King | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sell in a quote | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past | the Hatter | as a explanation | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | the Hatter = hatter | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=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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