Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 49

Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and thought it would be as well to introduce some other subject of conversation.

Who acts: Alice, tone · What happens: do, think, be, introduce, intonate · To what, where: all, other subject, remark · 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 (Alice, tone), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 all	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 did	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 tone	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tone	det
8	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 all	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 remark	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 remark	det
11	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tone	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thought	cc
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 well	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 well	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 well	cop
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 well	advmod
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 thought	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 introduce	mark
21	introduce	introduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 well	advcl
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 subject	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 subject	amod
24	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 introduce	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 conversation	case
26	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 subject	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Alice	all	like the tone of this remark	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	past	Alice not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	tone		well property	tree rules
4	introduce	to-infinitive	tone not said here	some other subject of conversation		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
5	intonate			this remark		nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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