Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 43

You _must_ have meant some mischief, or else you’d have signed your name like an honest man.”

Who acts: you, your · What happens: mean, sign, name · To what, where: You, name

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, your), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 meant	nsubj
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	1 You	punct
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 meant	aux
4	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 meant	nsubj:pass
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 meant	aux
6	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 mischief	det
8	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meant	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 signed	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 signed	cc
11	else	else	ADV	_	15 signed	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 signed	nsubj
13	’d	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 signed	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 signed	aux
15	signed	sign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 meant	conj
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 name	nmod:poss
17	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 signed	obj
18	like	like	ADP	_	21 man	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 signed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 meant	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	must · perfect · passive		You		tree rules
2	sign	would · perfect	you	your name	like a honest man; else property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Destination
3	name		your			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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