Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 58

“Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, ‘Let us both go to law: _I_ will prosecute _you_.—Come, I’ll take no denial; We must have a trial: For really this morning I’ve nothing to do.’

Who acts: Fury, That, both, Mouse, We · What happens: say, meet, let, go, prosecute, come · To what, where: mouse, house, us, law, you, denial · 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 (Fury, That, both, Mouse), 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 said	punct
2	Fury	Fury	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 prosecute	parataxis
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mouse	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 met	punct
8	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 met	nsubj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 met	nsubj
10	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 met	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Let	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Let	punct
16	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 met	parataxis
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 Let	obj
18	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	19 go	nsubj
19	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Let	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 law	case
21	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 _	punct
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 prosecute	nsubj
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 prosecute	punct
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 prosecute	aux
27	prosecute	prosecute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 you	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 prosecute	obj
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 you	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 prosecute	punct
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	33 Come	punct
33	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 prosecute	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 take	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 take	nsubj
36	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 take	aux
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 Come	conj
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 denial	det
39	denial	denial	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 take	obj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 have	punct
41	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 have	nsubj
42	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 have	aux
43	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 prosecute	parataxis
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 trial	det
45	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 have	obj
46	:	:	PUNCT	_	52 ’ve	punct
47	For	for	ADP	_	50 morning	case
48	really	really	ADV	_	50 morning	advmod
49	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 morning	det
50	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 ’ve	obl
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 ’ve	nsubj
52	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 have	conj
53	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	52 ’ve	obj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 do	mark
55	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 nothing	acl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 have	punct
57	’	'	PUNCT	_	43 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Fury		a mouse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mouse=Recipient
2	meet in a quote	past	That			the house		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let in a quote	infinitive		us				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
4	go in a quote	present	both			law		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to law=Initial_Location
5	prosecute in a quote	future	the Mouse = mouse	you				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
6	come in a quote	infinitive	the Mouse = mouse not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	take in a quote	future	the Mouse = mouse	no denial				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent denial=Theme
8	have in a quote	must	We	a trial				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trial=Patient
9	have in a quote	present	the Mouse = mouse	nothing			morning	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
10	do in a quote	to-infinitive	the Mouse = mouse not said here	nothing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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