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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 68

“I speak severely to my boy, I beat him when he sneezes; For he can thoroughly enjoy The pepper when he pleases!”

Who acts: Duchess, boy · What happens: speak, beat, sneeze, enjoy, please · To what, where: boy, pepper · 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, boy), 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

punctnsubjadvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjconjobjmarknsubjadvclpunctmarknsubjauxadvmodconjdetobjadvmodnsubjadvclpunctpunctroot“PUNCTIPRONspeakVERBseverelyADVtoADPmyPRONboyNOUN,PUNCTIPRONbeatVERBhimPRONwhenSCONJhePRONsneezesVERB;PUNCTForSCONJhePRONcanAUXthoroughlyADVenjoyVERBTheDETpepperNOUNwhenADVhePRONpleasesVERB!PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_3 speakpunct
2IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 speaknsubj
3speakspeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4severelyseverelyADV_3 speakadvmod
5totoADP_7 boycase
6mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 boynmod:poss
7boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing4 severelyobl
8,,PUNCT_10 beatpunct
9IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs10 beatnsubj
10beatbeatVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 speakconj
11himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 beatobj
12whenwhenSCONJ_14 sneezesmark
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 sneezesnsubj
14sneezessneezeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 beatadvcl
15;;PUNCT_20 enjoypunct
16ForforSCONJ_20 enjoymark
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 enjoynsubj
18cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin20 enjoyaux
19thoroughlythoroughlyADV_20 enjoyadvmod
20enjoyenjoyVERBVerbForm=Inf3 speakconj
21ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 pepperdet
22pepperpepperNOUNNumber=Sing20 enjoyobj
23whenwhenADVPronType=Int25 pleasesadvmod
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 pleasesnsubj
25pleasespleaseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 enjoyadvcl
26!!PUNCT_3 speakpunct
27”"PUNCT_3 speakpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1speak speech: other in a quotepresentthe Duchess = duchessseverely propertyvn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2beat in a quotepresentthe Duchess = duchessboyvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
3sneeze in a quotepresentboyvn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4enjoy in a quotecanboythe pepperthoroughly propertyvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pepper=Stimulus
5please in a quotepresentboyvn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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