Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 19

But at any rate he might answer questions.—How am I to get in?” she repeated, aloud.

Who acts: other, I, Alice · What happens: answer, get in, repeat · To what, where: questions, rate · 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 (other, I, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 answer	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 rate	case
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 rate	det
4	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answer	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 answer	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 answer	aux
7	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 answer	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answer	punct
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 get	punct
11	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 get	advmod
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 get	aux
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answer	parataxis
16	in	in	ADP	_	15 get	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 get	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 get	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 repeated	nsubj
20	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 get	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 aloud	punct
22	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	20 repeated	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	might	other	questions	any rate		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
2	get in	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	repeat in a quote	past	Alice			aloud property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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