Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 73

“Please come back and finish your story!”

Who acts: you · What happens: come back, finish · To what, where: story

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), 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 come	punct
2	Please	please	INTJ	_	3 come	discourse
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 finish	cc
6	finish	finish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 come	conj
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 story	nmod:poss
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finish	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	finish in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	your story					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality story=Eventuality

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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