Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 14

But I’d better take him his fan and gloves—that is, if I can find them.”

Who acts: I, that · What happens: have, take, be · To what, where: Mary

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 ’d	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ’d	nsubj
3	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 ’d	xcomp
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ’d	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	obj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fan	nmod:poss
8	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gloves	cc
10	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fan	conj
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 find	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 find	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 find	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ’d	parataxis
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 ’d	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	I		good property	tree rules
2	take	infinitive	I not said here	Mary		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme fan=Destination
3	is a condition, not said to happen	can · present	that		find property	tree rules

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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