Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 23

Only I don’t think,” Alice went on, “that they’d let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering people about like that!”

Who acts: I, Alice, _, Dinah, mouse · What happens: not think, go on, have, let, stop, begin · To what, where: Dinah, house, people · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Alice, _, Dinah), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	5 think	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	ccomp
10	on	on	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ’d	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 ’d	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 ’d	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ’d	nsubj
15	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ’d	ccomp
17	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 let	obj
18	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 house	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 house	det
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stop	obl
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 began	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stop	advcl
25	ordering	order	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 began	xcomp
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 ordering	obj
27	about	about	ADV	_	25 ordering	advmod
28	like	like	ADP	_	29 that	case
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 ordering	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go on in a quote	past	Alice					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	_					tree rules
4	let	infinitive	_ not said here	Dinah				tree rules
5	stop	infinitive	Dinah not said here			the house		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
6	begin a condition, not said to happen	past	mouse					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	order	gerund	mouse not said here		people		like that; about property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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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