Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 77

“If I don’t take this child away with me,” thought Alice, “they’re sure to kill it in a day or two: wouldn’t it be murder to leave it behind?”

Who acts: Alice, things, child · What happens: not take away, think, 're, kill, n't, be · To what, where: child, murder · 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, things, 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	_	14 thought	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 take	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thought	advcl
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 take	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 thought	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ’re	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 ’re	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ’re	nsubj
19	’re	're	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thought	conj
20	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ’re	xcomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 kill	mark
22	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sure	xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 kill	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 day	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kill	obl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 two	cc
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 day	conj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 n’t	punct
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 n’t	aux
31	n’t	n't	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 ’re	parataxis
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 murder	nsubj
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 murder	cop
34	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 n’t	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 leave	mark
36	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 murder	acl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 leave	obj
38	behind	behind	ADV	_	36 leave	advmod
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 n’t	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 n’t	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not take away a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	Alice	this child		with Alice; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	Alice				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	're in a quote	past	things = thing			sure property	tree rules
4	kill in a quote	to-infinitive	things = thing not said here	child	day		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	n't in a quote	would					tree rules
6	is a in a quote	infinitive	child	murder			tree rules
7	leave in a quote	to-infinitive		murder		behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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