Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 116

“Well, then,” the Cat went on, “you see, a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags its tail when it’s pleased.

Who acts: Cat, you, dog · What happens: go on, see, growl, wag, be · To what, where: tail · 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 (Cat, you, dog), 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	_	9 went	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 went	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cat	det
8	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
14	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 went	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 growls	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dog	det
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 growls	nsubj
18	growls	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 see	conj
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 ’s	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ’s	nsubj
21	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 growls	advcl
22	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ’s	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wags	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wags	cc
25	wags	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 growls	conj
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tail	nmod:poss
27	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wags	obj
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 pleased	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pleased	nsubj
30	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 pleased	cop
31	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wags	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the Cat		then		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	growl in a quote	present	a dog				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wag in a quote	present	a dog not said here	dog's tail			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
5	is in a quote	present	dog			pleased 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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