Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 5

She soon got it out again, and put it right; “not that it signifies much,” she said to herself; “I should think it would be _quite_ as much use in the trial one way up as the other.”

Who acts: Alice, tail, I · What happens: get out, put, not signify, say, think, _ · To what, where: tail, Alice · 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 (Alice, tail, I), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 got	advmod
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 got	compound:prt
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 put	cc
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 got	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 put	obj
11	right	right	ADV	_	9 put	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 signifies	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 signifies	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 signifies	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 signifies	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 signifies	nsubj
17	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 got	parataxis
18	much	much	ADV	_	17 signifies	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 signifies	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 herself	case
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 said	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 think	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 think	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 think	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 think	aux
29	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 got	parataxis
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 _	nsubj:pass
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 _	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 _	aux:pass
33	_	_	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 think	ccomp
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 _	advmod
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	38 use	punct
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 much	advmod
37	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 use	amod
38	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 _	advcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 trial	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 trial	det
41	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 use	nmod
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 way	nummod
43	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 up	obl:unmarked
44	up	up	ADV	_	33 _	advmod
45	as	as	ADP	_	47 other	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 other	det
47	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 _	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	get out	past	Alice	tail		again	soon property	tree rules
2	put	infinitive	Alice not said here	tail			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
3	not signify in a quote	present	tail					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	say speech: assert	past	Alice		Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
5	think speech: other in a quote	should	I					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	_ in a quote	would · passive		tail			as the other	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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