Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 96

“We must burn the house down!” said the Rabbit’s voice; and Alice called out as loud as she could, “If you do, I’ll set Dinah at you!”

Who acts: We, voice, you · What happens: burn down, say, call out, do, set · To what, where: house, Alice, Dinah · 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 (We, voice, 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	_	4 burn	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 burn	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 burn	aux
4	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burn	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	4 burn	compound:prt
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 burn	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 burn	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Rabbit	det
12	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 voice	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Rabbit	case
14	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 called	cc
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 called	nsubj:pass
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 called	compound:prt
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 loud	advmod
21	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 called	xcomp
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 could	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 could	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 loud	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 set	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 set	punct
27	If	if	SCONJ	_	29 do	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 do	nsubj
29	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 set	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 set	nsubj
32	’ll	'll	ADV	_	33 set	advmod
33	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
34	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 set	obj
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 set	obl
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	burn down in a quote	must	We	the house		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the Rabbit's voice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	call out speech: assert	participle · passive		Alice	loud property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	set in a quote	past	the Rabbit's voice = voice	Dinah	at you; 'll property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dinah=Theme at you=Destination

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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