Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 122

“I should like it very much,” said Alice, “but I haven’t been invited yet.”

Who acts: Alice · What happens: like, say, not invite · To what, where: croquet, Alice · 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 (Alice), 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	_	4 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	4 like	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 invited	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 invited	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 invited	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 invited	nsubj:pass
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 invited	aux
17	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 invited	advmod
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 invited	aux:pass
19	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	conj
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 invited	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	like in a quote	should	Alice	croquet		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not invite in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Alice	yet	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

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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