Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 69

“But it’s no use now,” thought poor Alice, “to pretend to be two people!

Who acts: advice, poor Alice · What happens: be, think, pretend · To what, where: use, two people, two · 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 (advice, poor 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	_	10 thought	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 use	cc
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
4	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 use	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 use	det
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	obl
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 use	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 now	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Alice	amod
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 thought	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pretend	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 pretend	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pretend	mark
16	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thought	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 two	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 two	cop
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 people	nummod
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pretend	xcomp
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	advice	no use	now	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	poor Alice			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pretend in a quote	to-infinitive	poor Alice not said here	two people		tree rules
4	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		two		tree rules

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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