Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 3

Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, “I am older than you, and must know better;” and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.

Who acts: Alice, long argument, argument, Lory positively, age, more · What happens: have, turn, say, be, know, not allow · To what, where: long argument · 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 (Alice, long argument, argument, Lory positively), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	8 argument	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 argument	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 argument	amod
8	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 Lory	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Lory	det
11	Lory	Lory	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 argument	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turned	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 turned	nsubj
14	at	at	SCONJ	_	16 turned	mark
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 turned	amod
16	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 argument	parataxis
17	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 turned	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 say	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 say	cc
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 say	aux
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 say	advmod
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 turned	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 older	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 older	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 older	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 older	cop
27	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 say	parataxis
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 older	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 know	cc
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 know	aux
33	know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 older	parataxis
34	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 know	advmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 allow	cc
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 Alice	det
39	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 allow	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 allow	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 allow	advmod
42	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 older	conj
43	without	without	SCONJ	_	44 knowing	mark
44	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 allow	advcl
45	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	46 old	advmod
46	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 knowing	ccomp
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 old	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 old	cop
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 refused	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 refused	cc
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 refused	punct
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 refused	mark
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 positively	det
54	Lory	Lory	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 positively	compound
55	positively	positively	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 refused	nsubj
56	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 older	conj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 tell	mark
58	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 refused	xcomp
59	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 age	nmod:poss
60	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 tell	obj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 was	punct
62	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	63 was	expl
63	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 tell	ccomp
64	no	no	ADV	_	65 more	advmod
65	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	63 was	nsubj
66	to	to	PART	_	68 said	mark
67	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	68 said	aux:pass
68	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	65 more	advcl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Alice	quite long argument		with the Lory; indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Patient
2	turn	participle	quite long argument			sulky property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	would	quite long argument not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	quite long argument = argument			than you; old property	tree rules
5	know in a quote	must				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	not allow	would	this Alice				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
7	know	gerund	this Alice not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	past	argument			old property	tree rules
9	refuse	past	the Lory positively				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	not tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	positively's age				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	be	past	more		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	say speech: assert	to-infinitive · passive	more not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»

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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