Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 53

“They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him: She gave me a good character, But said I could not swim.

Who acts: verses, you, trial · What happens: tell, be, mention, give, say, not swim · To what, where: verses, Rabbit, good character · 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 (verses, you, trial), 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	_	3 told	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 her	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 her	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 her	cop
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mentioned	punct
11	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 mentioned	cc
12	mentioned	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 mentioned	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mentioned	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
17	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	nsubj
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 gave	iobj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 character	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 character	amod
22	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	But	but	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gave	conj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 swim	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 swim	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 swim	advmod
29	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	verses = verse		verses = verse		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is in a quote	past · perfect	you			to trial	tree rules
3	mention speech: other in a quote	past	verses = verse not said here	verses = verse	Rabbit		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Topic to he=Recipient
4	give in a quote	past	trial	a good character	verses = verse		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient character=Theme
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	trial not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not swim in a quote	could	verses = verse				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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