Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 98

“I don’t much care where—” said Alice.

Who acts: much care · What happens: care, say · 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 (much care), 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	_	6 care	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 care	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 care	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 care	amod
6	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 —	advmod
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 care	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 care	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care in a quote	present · do-support	much care = care						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	much care						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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