Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 90

“If it had grown up,” she said to herself, “it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.”

Who acts: mistake, Alice · What happens: grow up, say, make, think · To what, where: Alice, mistake, handsome pig · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 grown	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grown	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grown	aux
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 grown	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 herself	case
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj:pass
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 made	aux
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 child	det
20	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	21 ugly	advmod
21	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 child	amod
22	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 makes	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 makes	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 makes	nsubj
26	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
27	rather	rather	ADV	_	30 pig	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 pig	det
29	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pig	amod
30	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 makes	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 think	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 think	nsubj
33	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 makes	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 makes	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	grow up a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	mistake			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Alice		Alice	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	make in a quote	would · perfect · passive		mistake		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary child=Product
4	make in a quote	present	mistake	a handsome pig		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material pig=Product
5	think speech: other in a quote	present	Alice			vn focus-87.1-1 «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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