Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 77

“Would _you_ like cats if you were me?”

Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: cats

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), 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	_	2 Would	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Would	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 _	nsubj
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Would	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 cats	case
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Would	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 me	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 me	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 me	cop
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Would	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Would	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Would	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	you	cats = cat					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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