Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 54

“If everybody minded their own business,” the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, “the world would go round a deal faster than it does.”

Who acts: everybody, Duchess, world · What happens: mind, say, go, do · To what, where: own business, hoarse growl, deal · 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 (everybody, Duchess, world), 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	_	4 minded	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 minded	mark
3	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 minded	nsubj
4	minded	mind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 business	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 business	amod
7	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 minded	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 minded	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 minded	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Duchess	det
11	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 growl	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 growl	det
15	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 growl	amod
16	growl	growl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 deal	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 deal	det
25	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
26	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 go	advmod
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	29 does	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 does	nsubj
29	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 faster	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mind a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	everybody	saucepans's own business			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Duchess		a hoarse growl		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	would	the world		a deal	fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round deal=Initial_Location
4	do in a quote	present	world				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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