Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 59

Said the mouse to the cur, ‘Such a trial, dear sir, With no jury or judge, would be wasting our breath.’

Who acts: mouse, jury · What happens: say, waste · To what, where: cur, breath · 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 (mouse, jury), 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	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Said	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 cur	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cur	det
6	cur	cur	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 trial	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 trial	punct
9	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 trial	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 trial	det
11	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cur	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sir	punct
13	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sir	amod
14	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cur	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 jury	punct
16	With	with	ADP	_	18 jury	case
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 jury	det
18	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Said	parataxis
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 judge	cc
20	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 jury	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wasting	punct
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 wasting	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 wasting	aux
24	wasting	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 jury	acl
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 breath	nmod:poss
26	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wasting	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mouse		the cur and such trial and dear sir				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to cur=Recipient
2	waste	would · progressive	no jury or judge not said here	our breath					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Patient

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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