Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 63

“Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases.”

Who acts: boy, child · What happens: speak, beat, sneeze, annoy, know, tease · To what, where: boy · 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 (boy, child), 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	_	2 Speak	punct
2	Speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 annoy	advcl
3	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	2 Speak	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 boy	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 boy	nmod:poss
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Speak	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beat	punct
9	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 beat	cc
10	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Speak	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 beat	obj
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 sneezes	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sneezes	nsubj
14	sneezes	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 beat	advcl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 does	punct
16	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 does	nsubj
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 does	advmod
18	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 annoy	aux
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 does	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 annoy	mark
21	annoy	annoy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knows	punct
23	Because	because	SCONJ	_	25 knows	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knows	nsubj
25	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 annoy	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 teases	nsubj
27	teases	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 knows	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 annoy	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 annoy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other in a quote	infinitive			to your little boy; roughly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to boy=Co-Agent
2	beat in a quote	past		boy		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
3	sneeze in a quote	present	boy			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	annoy in a quote	present · do-support				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	know in a quote	present	boy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	tease in a quote	present	child			vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: 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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