Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 33

“Oh, there’s no use in talking to him,” said Alice desperately: “he’s perfectly idiotic!”

Who acts: use, Alice, dreadful · What happens: talk, say, be · To what, where: dreadful · 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 (use, Alice, dreadful), 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	_	14 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 ’s	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 ’s	expl
5	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 use	det
7	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ’s	obj
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 talking	mark
9	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 use	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ’s	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 ’s	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	desperately	desperately	ADV	_	14 said	advmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 idiotic	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 idiotic	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 idiotic	nsubj
20	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 idiotic	cop
21	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	22 idiotic	advmod
22	idiotic	idiotic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	parataxis
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 idiotic	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 idiotic	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	talk in a quote	gerund	no use not said here	dreadful		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
2	say speech: express	past	Alice		desperately property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	dreadful		idiotic, perfectly property	tree rules

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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