Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 55

It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do _that_ in a hurry.

Who acts: It, wise little Alice · What happens: be, drink, not go, do · To what, where: me, that, hurry · 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 (It, wise little 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 say	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Drink	punct
9	Drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Drink	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Drink	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 Drink	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 going	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Alice	det
15	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Alice	amod
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Alice	amod
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 going	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 going	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 going	advmod
20	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 say	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 that	advcl
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 going	obl
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 hurry	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hurry	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hurry	det
28	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 going	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	past	It			say, well property	tree rules
2	drink in a quote	infinitive		me			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	not go	past · progressive	the wise little Alice	that	a hurry		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hurry=Location
4	do	to-infinitive	the wise little Alice not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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