Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 21

“I know what ‘it’ means well enough, when _I_ find a thing,” said the Duck: “it’s generally a frog or a worm.

Who acts: Duck, archbishop · What happens: know, mean, find, say, be · To what, where: thing, frog · 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 (Duck, archbishop), 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 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 said	ccomp
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 means	obj
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 it	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 means	nsubj
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 it	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	ccomp
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 means	advmod
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 well	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 find	mark
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 find	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
15	_	_	PART	_	16 find	mark
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 thing	det
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Duck	det
23	Duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 frog	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 frog	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 frog	nsubj
27	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 frog	cop
28	generally	generally	ADV	_	30 frog	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 frog	det
30	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Duck	conj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 worm	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 worm	det
33	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 frog	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	the Duck and a frog or a worm = duck			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	mean in a quote	present	archbishop		well property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	find in a quote	infinitive	the Duck and a frog or a worm = duck	a thing		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	the Duck and a frog or a worm			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is a in a quote	present	archbishop	a frog or a worm	generally property	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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