Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 7

Let me see: I’ll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.”

Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: let, see, give · To what, where: me, new pair, dears

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, me, 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 give	nsubj
6	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pair	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pair	amod
11	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 boots	case
13	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pair	nmod
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 Christmas	det
15	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 give	obl:unmarked
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me			tree rules
2	see	infinitive	me not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	give	future	I	a new pair of boots	dears = dear	every Christmas obl:unmarked	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient pair=Theme

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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