Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 52
“You’ve no right to grow _here_,” said the Dormouse.
Who acts: You, Dormouse · What happens: have, grow, say · To what, where: right · 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 (You, Dormouse), 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 ’ve | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ’ve | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 right | det |
| 5 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’ve | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 grow | mark |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 right | acl |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 grow | punct |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 grow | advmod |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 grow | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Dormouse | det |
| 15 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | You | no right | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | no right not said here | here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Dormouse | 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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