Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 107

“They couldn’t have done that, you know,” Alice gently remarked; “they’d have been ill.”

Who acts: names, you · What happens: not do, know, remark, be · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (names, you), 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 done	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 done	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	aux
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 done	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 done	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 done	obl
14	gently	gently	ADV	_	15 remarked	advmod
15	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 done	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 ill	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 ill	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ill	nsubj
19	’d	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 ill	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 ill	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 ill	cop
22	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 done	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not do in a quote	could · perfect	names = name	that	Alice obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	know in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	remark speech: assert	participle	names = name not said here		gently property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	would · perfect	names = name		ill property	tree rules

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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