Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 94

Do come back again, and we won’t talk about cats or dogs either, if you don’t like them!”

Who acts: you, we · What happens: come back, not talk, not like · To what, where: dogs

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 (you, we), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 come	aux
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 come	advmod
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 come	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 talk	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 talk	cc
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 talk	nsubj
8	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 talk	aux
9	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 talk	advmod
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 come	conj
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 cats	case
12	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 talk	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 dogs	cc
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cats	conj
15	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 talk	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 like	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 like	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 like	nsubj
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 like	aux
20	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 like	advmod
21	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 talk	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 like	obj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come back	imperative · do-support	you not said here		again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not talk	future	we			about cats or dogs; either property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic
3	not like a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you	dogs = dog			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

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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