Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 96

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”

Who acts: you, Alice · What happens: tell, go · To what, where: Alice · 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), 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 tell	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
7	please	please	INTJ	_	4 tell	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct
9	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	parataxis
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
12	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 way	acl:relcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 here	case
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 go	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	would	you		Alice				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	go in a quote	ought	Alice						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from here=Initial_Location

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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