Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 53
“Don’t talk nonsense,” said Alice more boldly: “you know you’re growing too.”
Who acts: Alice, you · What happens: not talk, say, know, 're, grow · To what, where: nonsense · 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 (Alice, 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 talk | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 talk | aux |
| 3 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 talk | aux |
| 4 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 5 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talk | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 boldly | advmod |
| 11 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 said | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 ’re | nsubj |
| 17 | ’re | 're | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | ccomp |
| 18 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 ’re | xcomp |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 growing | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not talk in a quote | infinitive · do-support | nonsense | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | boldly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | 're in a quote | past | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | grow in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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