Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 78

“Well, perhaps not,” said Alice in a soothing tone: “don’t be angry about it.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: soothing tone · 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 perhaps	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 perhaps	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 perhaps	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 tone	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tone	det
12	soothing	soothing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tone	amod
13	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 angry	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 angry	punct
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 angry	aux
17	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 angry	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 angry	cop
19	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	conj
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 angry	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Alice			a soothing tone		perhaps property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner
2	not is in a quote	infinitive · do-support	Alice not said here					about tone; angry property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/78/