Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 63

“If there’s no meaning in it,” said the King, “that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn’t try to find any.

Who acts: King, that, you, we · What happens: say, save, know, need, not try, find · To what, where: world, any · 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 (King, that, you, we), 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	_	11 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 ’s	mark
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 ’s	expl
4	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 meaning	det
6	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ’s	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 meaning	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ’s	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 ’s	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saves	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 saves	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 saves	nsubj
17	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saves	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 trouble	case
21	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 world	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
24	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 saves	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 need	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 need	mark
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 need	nsubj
28	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 know	ccomp
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 try	advmod
30	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 need	xcomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 find	mark
32	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 try	xcomp
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 find	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the King		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	save in a quote	present	that	a world of trouble	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme
3	know in a quote	present	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	need in a quote	present	we		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	not try not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	we not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	find not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	any	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Topic

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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