Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 58

Don’t let him know she liked them best, For this must ever be A secret, kept from all the rest, Between yourself and me.”

Who acts: you, Rabbit, trial, this · What happens: not let, know, like, be, keep · To what, where: Rabbit, verses, rest · 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, Rabbit, trial, this), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux
2	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 liked	nsubj
7	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	ccomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 liked	obj
9	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 liked	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 secret	punct
11	For	for	ADP	_	17 secret	case
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 secret	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 secret	aux
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 secret	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 secret	cop
16	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 secret	det
17	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kept	punct
19	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 yourself	amod
20	from	from	ADP	_	23 rest	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 rest	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rest	det
23	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kept	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 yourself	punct
25	Between	between	ADP	_	26 yourself	case
26	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 secret	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 me	cc
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 yourself	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	imperative · do-support	you not said here	Rabbit				tree rules
2	know	infinitive	Rabbit not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	like	past	trial	verses = verse			well property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
4	is	must	this			ever	for a secret; between yourself	tree rules
5	keep	participle			all rest			vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from rest=Eventuality

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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