Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 71

“Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!” the Duchess said to Alice, flinging the baby at her as she spoke.

Who acts: Alice, Duchess · What happens: nurse, like, say, fling, speak · To what, where: Alice, baby · 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, 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 said	parataxis
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 nurse	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 nurse	aux
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	nsubj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Here	nsubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 like	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 like	nsubj
13	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	advcl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Duchess	det
17	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Alice	case
20	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flinging	punct
22	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 said	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 baby	det
24	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flinging	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 flinging	obl
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 spoke	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 spoke	nsubj
29	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 flinging	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	nurse in a quote	may	Alice				tree rules
2	like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Alice				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	say speech: express	past	the Duchess		Alice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to alice=Recipient clause=Topic
4	fling	gerund	the Duchess not said here	the baby		at Duchess	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent baby=Theme at she=Destination
5	speak speech: other	past	Duchess				vn talk-37.5 «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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