Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 15

“There might be some sense in your knocking,” the Footman went on without attending to her, “if we had the door between us.

Who acts: Footman, we, your · What happens: be, go on, attend, have, knock · To what, where: sense, knocking, footman, door

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, we, your), 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	_	6 sense	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 be	expl
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sense	cop
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 sense	det
6	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 knocking	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 knocking	nmod:poss
9	knocking	knocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sense	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sense	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 sense	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Footman	det
13	Footman	Footman	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	on	on	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	without	without	SCONJ	_	17 attending	mark
17	attending	attend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 went	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 attending	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 door	det
26	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
27	between	between	ADP	_	28 us	case
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 had	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	infinitive		some sense		your knocking		tree rules
2	go on	past	the Footman					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	attend	gerund	the Footman not said here		footman			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to she=Theme
4	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	we	the door			between us	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
5	knock in a quote		your					nom knocking «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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