Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 54

He sent them word I had not gone (We know it to be true): If she should push the matter on, What would become of you?

Who acts: Rabbit, I, We, word, trial · What happens: send, not go, know, be, push on, become · To what, where: verses, word, 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 (Rabbit, I, We, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 gone	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 gone	advmod
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 word	acl:relcl
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
10	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 true	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	15 true	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 true	cop
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 know	ccomp
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 true	punct
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 push	punct
18	If	if	SCONJ	_	21 push	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 push	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 push	aux
21	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 know	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 matter	det
23	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 push	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	21 push	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 become	punct
26	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 become	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 become	aux
28	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 push	parataxis
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 become	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	Rabbit	verses = verse		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination word=Theme
2	not go	past · perfect	I	word not said here		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme
3	know	present	We			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	to-infinitive	word		true property	tree rules
5	push on a condition, not said to happen	should	trial	the matter		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Theme
6	become	would			of you	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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