Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 70

“Perhaps it doesn’t understand English,” thought Alice; “I daresay it’s a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror.”

Who acts: eye, Alice, way · What happens: not understand, think, daresay, come over · To what, where: Conqueror · 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 (eye, Alice, way), 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 understand	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 understand	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 understand	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 understand	advmod
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 thought	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 English	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 English	punct
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	ccomp
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 thought	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 daresay	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 daresay	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 daresay	nsubj
15	daresay	daresay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ’s	nsubj
17	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 daresay	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 mouse	det
19	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mouse	amod
20	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ’s	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 understand	conj
23	over	over	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 William	case
25	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Conqueror	det
27	Conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not understand in a quote	present · do-support	eye		perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past	Alice			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	daresay in a quote	present	way			tree rules
4	come over in a quote	infinitive	eye not said here	the Conqueror	with William; over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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