Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 54

“You promised to tell me your history, you know,” said Alice, “and why it is you hate—C and D,” she added in a whisper, half afraid that it would be offended again.

Who acts: You, Alice, history · What happens: promise, tell, know, say, be, add · To what, where: history, Alice, whisper · 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, Alice, history), 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 promised	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	xcomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 history	nmod:poss
8	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 added	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 added	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hate	cc
19	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 hate	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hate	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 hate	cop
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 hate	nsubj
23	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 added	advcl
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 C	punct
25	C	C	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 hate	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 D	cc
27	D	D	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 C	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hate	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 hate	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 added	nsubj
31	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 whisper	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 whisper	det
34	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 added	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 half	punct
36	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	34 whisper	conj
37	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 half	amod
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 offended	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 offended	nsubj:pass
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 offended	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 offended	aux:pass
42	offended	offend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 afraid	ccomp
43	again	again	ADV	_	42 offended	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	You						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	You not said here	your history	Alice				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient history=Topic
3	know in a quote	present	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	Alice						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is in a quote	present	history					C and D obl; hate property	tree rules
6	add speech: assert	past	Alice			a whisper and half			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	offend	would · passive		history			again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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