Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 105

Visit either you like: they’re both mad.”

Who acts: you, directions · What happens: visit, like, 're

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, directions), 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	Visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	either	either	CCONJ	_	4 like	cc:preconj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
4	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Visit	ccomp
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 ’re	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ’re	nsubj
7	’re	're	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Visit	conj
8	both	both	ADV	_	9 mad	advmod
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ’re	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Visit	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Visit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	visit	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	like	present	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	're	past	directions = direction	mad 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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