Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 61

“Oh, don’t bother _me_,” said the Duchess; “I never could abide figures!”

Who acts: Duchess · What happens: not bother, say, not abide · To what, where: Duchess, figures · 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 (Duchess), 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	_	6 bother	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 bother	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 bother	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 bother	advmod
6	bother	bother	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 me	punct
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bother	obj
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 me	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bother	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 bother	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Duchess	det
14	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 abide	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 abide	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 abide	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 abide	advmod
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 abide	aux
20	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
21	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 abide	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 abide	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 abide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not bother in a quote	infinitive · do-support		the Duchess = duchess	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
2	say speech: express	past	the Duchess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not abide in a quote	could	the Duchess = duchess	figures	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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