Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 79

“Don’t grunt,” said Alice; “that’s not at all a proper way of expressing yourself.”

Who acts: you, Alice, that, proper way · What happens: not grunt, say, not be, express · To what, where: proper way, yourself · 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 (you, Alice, that, proper way), 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	_	4 grunt	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 grunt	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 grunt	advmod
4	grunt	grunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grunt	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 grunt	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grunt	advcl
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 way	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 way	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 way	nsubj
12	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 way	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 way	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	18 way	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 way	det
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grunt	parataxis
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 expressing	mark
20	expressing	express	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 way	acl
21	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 expressing	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grunt	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 grunt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not grunt in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	present	that		all proper way	tree rules
4	express in a quote	gerund	all proper way not said here	yourself		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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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