Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 63
“Do you take me for a dunce?
Who acts: you · What happens: take · To what, where: King
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), 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 take | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 dunce | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dunce | det |
| 8 | dunce | dunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | present · do-support | you | the King = king | for a dunce | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for dunce=Beneficiary |
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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