Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 16

“You ought to be ashamed of yourself,” said Alice, “a great girl like you,” (she might well say this), “to go on crying in this way!

Who acts: Alice · What happens: be, say, go, cry · To what, where: this, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	6 ashamed	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 ought	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ashamed	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	6 ashamed	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 ashamed	cop
6	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 yourself	case
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 ashamed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ashamed	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 ashamed	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ashamed	conj
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 girl	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 girl	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 girl	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 girl	amod
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ashamed	obl
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 girl	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ashamed	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 ashamed	punct
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 say	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 say	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 say	aux
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 say	advmod
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ashamed	parataxis
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 say	obj
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 say	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 go	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 go	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 go	mark
32	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 say	ccomp
33	on	on	SCONJ	_	34 crying	mark
34	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 go	advcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 way	case
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 way	det
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 crying	obl
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 ashamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	ought				of yourself; a great girl like you obl; ashamed property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: express	might	Alice	this		well property	tree rules
4	go in a quote	to-infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cry speech: express in a quote	gerund			this way		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location

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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