Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 42
“If you didn’t sign it,” said the King, “that only makes the matter worse.
Who acts: you, King · What happens: not sign, say, make · To what, where: name, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, King), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 sign | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 sign | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sign | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 sign | advmod |
| 6 | sign | sign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sign | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sign | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sign | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 makes | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 makes | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 makes | mark |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 makes | advmod |
| 17 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 makes | obj |
| 20 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 makes | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sign a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · do-support | you | name | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | the King not said here | the matter | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset matter=Product |
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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