Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 88

This time there could be _no_ mistake about it: it was neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it further.

Who acts: time, mistake, Alice · What happens: be, feel, carry · To what, where: mistake

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 (time, mistake, Alice), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 be	nsubj
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 time	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 mistake	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 mistake	det
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 mistake	punct
9	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 be	nsubj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mistake	nmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 more	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 more	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 more	cop
15	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	16 more	cc:preconj
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 be	parataxis
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 less	cc
18	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 more	conj
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 pig	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pig	det
21	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 less	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 felt	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 felt	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 felt	nsubj
25	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 more	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 absurd	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 absurd	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 absurd	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 absurd	cop
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 absurd	advmod
31	absurd	absurd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 felt	xcomp
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 carry	mark
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 carry	nsubj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 carry	mark
35	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 absurd	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 carry	obj
37	further	further	ADV	_	35 carry	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	can	could	this time			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	mistake		more property	tree rules
3	be		mistake not said here		than a pig	tree rules
4	feel	past	Alice			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	is	would	mistake		absurd property	tree rules
6	carry	to-infinitive	Alice	mistake	further property	vn carry-11.4 «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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