Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 11

“There’s no sort of use in knocking,” said the Footman, “and that for two reasons.

Who acts: Footman · What happens: say, sort · To what, where: use · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Footman), 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	_	3 ’s	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 ’s	expl
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 sort	det
5	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ’s	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 use	case
7	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sort	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 knocking	case
9	knocking	knocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Footman	det
14	Footman	Footman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 that	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 that	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 that	cc
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 Footman	parataxis
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 reasons	case
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 reasons	nummod
21	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Footman					for two reasons	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	sort in a quote			use in knocking					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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