Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 16

For instance, if you were _inside_, you might knock, and I could let you out, you know.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, knock, let out, know · To what, where: 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 (you, I), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 instance	case
2	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knock	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 instance	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 inside	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 inside	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 inside	cop
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 inside	punct
8	inside	inside	ADV	_	13 knock	advcl
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 inside	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 inside	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 knock	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 knock	aux
13	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 let	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 let	aux
18	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 knock	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	out	out	ADP	_	18 let	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
23	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 knock	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 knock	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 knock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	you		inside property	tree rules
2	knock	might	you		for instance	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	let out	could	I	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	know	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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