Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 12

First, because I’m on the same side of the door as you are; secondly, because they’re making such a noise inside, no one could possibly hear you.”

Who acts: I, you, reasons, one · What happens: be, make, hear · To what, where: same side, noise, you

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 (I, you, reasons, one), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 ’m	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ’m	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 ’m	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ’m	nsubj
5	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 side	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 side	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 side	amod
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ’m	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 side	nmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 are	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 are	nsubj
15	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ’m	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 ’m	punct
17	secondly	secondly	ADV	_	5 ’m	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ’re	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 ’re	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ’re	nsubj
21	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ’m	conj
22	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 ’re	xcomp
23	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	25 noise	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 noise	det
25	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 making	obj
26	inside	inside	ADV	_	22 making	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hear	punct
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hear	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 hear	aux
31	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	32 hear	advmod
32	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ’m	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 hear	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ’m	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 ’m	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	I		the same side of the door	first, secondly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
2	does	present	you				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	does	present	reasons = reason				tree rules
4	make	gerund	reasons = reason not said here	such noise		inside property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product
5	hear	could	no one	you		possibly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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