Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 112

“You mean you can’t take _less_,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to take _more_ than nothing.”

Who acts: You, Hatter · What happens: mean, not take, say, be, take · To what, where: less, more · 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 (You, Hatter), 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	_	13 said	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 mean	nsubj
3	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 take	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 take	advmod
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mean	ccomp
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 less	punct
9	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 take	obj
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 less	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mean	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 mean	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Hatter	det
15	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 easy	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 easy	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 easy	expl
19	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 easy	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 easy	advmod
21	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 take	mark
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 easy	csubj
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 more	punct
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 take	obj
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 nothing	case
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 take	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present	You			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not take in a quote	can	you	less		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Hatter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present			easy property	tree rules
5	take in a quote	to-infinitive		more	than nothing	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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