Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 79

(As that is rather a hard word, I will just explain to you how it was done.

Who acts: that, I, word · What happens: be, explain · To what, where: hard word, you

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, I, word), 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	_	13 explain	punct
2	As	as	SCONJ	_	8 word	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 word	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 word	cop
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 word	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 explain	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 word	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 explain	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 explain	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 explain	advmod
13	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 explain	obl
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 done	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 done	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 done	cop
19	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 explain	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 explain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	a hard word			tree rules
2	explain speech: assert	future	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
3	is	past	word			done property	tree rules

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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