Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 17

Stop this moment, I tell you!”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: stop, tell · To what, where: you · 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 (you, 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	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stop	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	parataxis
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Stop	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here				moment		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	present	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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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