Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 88

The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: “There is such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you!

Who acts: Mouse, Alice, nice little dog · What happens: not answer, go, be, like, show · To what, where: you · 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 (Mouse, Alice, nice little dog), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mouse	det
2	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answer	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 answer	advmod
5	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 eagerly	case
11	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	9 went	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
14	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 is	expl
15	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	parataxis
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 dog	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dog	det
18	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dog	amod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dog	amod
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 is	nsubj
21	near	near	ADP	_	23 house	case
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 house	nmod:poss
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dog	nmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 like	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 like	aux
26	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dog	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 show	mark
28	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 like	xcomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 show	iobj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	not answer speech: express	past · do-support	the Mouse			tree rules
2	go	past	Alice			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on eagerly=Location
3	be in a quote	present	such nice little dog near our house		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	like in a quote	should	the Mouse = mouse			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	show not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Mouse = mouse not said here	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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