Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 79

And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you’d take a fancy to cats if you could only see her.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: wish, show, think, have, take, see · To what, where: cat, you, fancy, cats, Dinah · 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 (I, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 wish	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	4 wish	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wish	nsubj
4	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 show	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 show	aux
7	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wish	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 show	iobj
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cat	nmod:poss
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 show	obj
11	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cat	appos
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 think	nsubj
14	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wish	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 ’d	nsubj
16	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 think	ccomp
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ’d	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fancy	det
19	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 cats	case
21	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 take	obl
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 see	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 see	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 see	aux
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 see	advmod
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	advcl
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 see	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	wish	present	I			yet	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	show	could	I	our cat	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cat=Topic
3	think speech: other	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	past	you				tree rules
5	take	infinitive	you not said here	a fancy	cats		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to cat=Destination
6	see a condition, not said to happen	could	you	Dinah			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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