Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 85

_You_ do it!—_That_ I won’t, then!—Bill’s to go down—Here, Bill! the master says you’re to go down the chimney!”

Who acts: You, master · What happens: do, go down, say, be · To what, where: crash, chimney · 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 (You, master), 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	_	4 do	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	_	_	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
9	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 do	obj
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 do	discourse
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 wo	nsubj
12	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	parataxis
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 wo	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 then	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 do	advmod
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 then	punct
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 ’s	punct
18	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 ’s	nsubj
19	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 says	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ’s	xcomp
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 Here	punct
24	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 go	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Bill	punct
26	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 says	ccomp
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 Bill	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 master	det
29	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 says	nsubj
30	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	parataxis
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 ’re	nsubj
32	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 says	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 ’re	xcomp
35	down	down	ADP	_	37 chimney	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 chimney	det
37	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 go	obl
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do		You	crash		then		tree rules
2	go down	to-infinitive	the master not said here		here		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	present	the master					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	does	present	you					tree rules
5	go down	to-infinitive	you not said here	the chimney				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient chimney=Extent

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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