Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 60

“If any one of them can explain it,” said Alice, (she had grown so large in the last few minutes that she wasn’t a bit afraid of interrupting him,) “I’ll give him sixpence.

Who acts: one, Alice · What happens: explain, say, grow, not be, interrupt, 'll · To what, where: jury, King, sixpence · 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 (one, Alice), 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	_	8 explain	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 explain	mark
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 explain	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 explain	aux
8	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 explain	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 explain	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 explain	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grown	punct
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 grown	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grown	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 grown	aux
18	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 large	advmod
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grown	xcomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 minutes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 minutes	det
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 minutes	amod
24	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 minutes	amod
25	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 grown	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 afraid	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 afraid	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 afraid	cop
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 afraid	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bit	det
31	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 afraid	obl:unmarked
32	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grown	advcl
33	of	of	SCONJ	_	34 interrupting	mark
34	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 afraid	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 interrupting	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 afraid	punct
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 afraid	punct
38	“	"	PUNCT	_	40 ’ll	punct
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 ’ll	nsubj
40	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 afraid	conj
41	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 ’ll	xcomp
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 give	iobj
43	sixpence	sixpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 give	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	any one of verses	jury				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Alice					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grow	past · perfect	Alice			minute	large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not is	past	Alice				a bit obl:unmarked; afraid property	tree rules
5	interrupt	gerund	Alice not said here	King				tree rules
6	'll in a quote	present	Alice					tree rules
7	give in a quote	infinitive	Alice not said here	sixpence	King			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sixpence=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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