Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 14

Why, I wouldn’t say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!”

Who acts: I · What happens: not say, fall off · To what, where: anything, top · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 say	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 say	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 anything	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 fell	advmod
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 fell	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	advcl
15	off	off	ADP	_	17 top	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 top	det
17	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 house	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 top	nmod
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	would	I	anything				about home	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
2	fall off a condition, not said to happen	past	I	the top of the house					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient top=Extent

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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