Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 83

“As if _I_ would talk on such a subject!

Who acts: Alice · What happens: talk · To what, where: subject

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 talk	punct
2	As	as	SCONJ	_	8 talk	mark
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	2 As	fixed
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 As	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 talk	nsubj
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 I	punct
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 talk	aux
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 subject	case
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 subject	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 subject	det
12	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talk	obl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk in a quote	would	Alice			such subject			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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