Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 73

“That I can’t remember,” said the Hatter.

Who acts: That, Hatter · What happens: not remember, say · 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 (That, Hatter), 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	_	6 remember	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 remember	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 remember	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 remember	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 remember	advmod
6	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 remember	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 remember	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Hatter	det
11	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not remember in a quote	can	That						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Hatter						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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