Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 34

(And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.)

Who acts: you, I, Dodo · What happens: like, try, tell, manage · To what, where: thing, you · 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 (you, I, Dodo), 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	_	7 like	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 like	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 And	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 like	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 try	mark
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 like	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 try	obj
12	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 try	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 day	det
15	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 day	compound
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 try	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tell	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	aux
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 like	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 managed	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Dodo	det
24	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 managed	nsubj
25	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 managed	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	like	might	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the thing		day	yourself obl	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	future	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	manage	past	the Dodo	thing				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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