Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 73

Then again—‘_before she had this fit_—’ you never had fits, my dear, I think?” he said to the Queen.

Who acts: Alice, you, I, King · What happens: have, not have, think, say · To what, where: fit, fits, Queen · 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 (Alice, you, I, King), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 again	advmod
2	again	again	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
3	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 again	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 again	parataxis
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 fit	det
10	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 again	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 had	advmod
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	advcl
17	fits	fit	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dear	punct
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 dear	nmod:poss
20	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fits	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 think	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 think	nsubj
23	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 had	parataxis
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 think	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 Queen	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Queen	det
30	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 said	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	Alice	this fit			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient
2	not have	past	you	fits		again	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient
3	think speech: other	present	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	King		the Queen		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient

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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