Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 81

“We won’t talk about her any more if you’d rather not.”

Who acts: We, you · What happens: not talk, not 'd

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 (We, 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	_	5 talk	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 talk	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 talk	advmod
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talk	obl
8	any	any	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 talk	advmod
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 ’d	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 ’d	nsubj
12	’d	'd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	advcl
13	rather	rather	ADV	_	12 ’d	advmod
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 ’d	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk in a quote	future	We					about Dinah	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about she=Topic
2	not 'd a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you						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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