Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 48

“You don’t know much,” said the Duchess; “and that’s a fact.”

Who acts: You, Duchess, that · What happens: not know, say, be · To what, where: much, fact · 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 (You, Duchess, that), 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	_	5 know	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 know	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Duchess	det
11	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 fact	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fact	cc
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 fact	nsubj
16	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fact	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fact	det
18	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 fact	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 fact	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not know in a quote	present · do-support	You	much	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Duchess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	that	a fact	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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