Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 49

“I wish you wouldn’t squeeze so,” said the Dormouse, who was sitting next to her.

Who acts: Dormouse, you · What happens: wish, not squeeze, say, sit · To what, where: Dormouse · 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 (Dormouse, 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	_	3 wish	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wish	nsubj
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 squeeze	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 squeeze	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 squeeze	advmod
7	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wish	ccomp
8	so	so	ADV	_	7 squeeze	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Dormouse	det
13	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sitting	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sitting	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sitting	aux
17	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 Dormouse	acl
18	next	next	ADV	_	17 sitting	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sitting	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	wish in a quote	present	the Dormouse = dormouse			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	not squeeze in a quote	would	you			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the Dormouse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sit	past · progressive	the Dormouse	Dormouse	next property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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