Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 14

“I beg your pardon!” said the Mouse, frowning, but very politely: “Did you speak?”

Who acts: Mouse, you, your · What happens: beg, say, frown, speak, pardon · To what, where: pardon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mouse, you, your), 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	_	3 beg	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 beg	nsubj
3	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pardon	nmod:poss
5	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beg	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Mouse	det
10	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 frowning	punct
12	frowning	frown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 speak	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 speak	cc
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 politely	advmod
16	politely	politely	ADV	_	21 speak	advmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 speak	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 speak	punct
19	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 speak	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 speak	nsubj
21	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 speak	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request in a quote	present	the Mouse = mouse	your pardon		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
2	say speech: express	past	the Mouse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	frown	gerund	the Mouse not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	speak speech: other in a quote	past · do-support	you		politely property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pardon in a quote		your			nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=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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