Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 45

Be off, or I’ll kick you down stairs!”

Who acts: I · What happens: be, kick down · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 off	cop
2	off	off	ADV	_	7 kick	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kick	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 kick	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 kick	nsubj
6	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 kick	aux
7	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 kick	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	7 kick	compound:prt
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kick	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 kick	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 kick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						off property	tree rules
2	kick down	future	I	you				stairs obl	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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