Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 119

Alice was beginning very angrily, but the Hatter and the March Hare went “Sh! sh!” and the Dormouse sulkily remarked, “If you can’t be civil, you’d better finish the story for yourself.”

Who acts: Alice, Hatter, Dormouse, you · What happens: begin, go, remark, not be, have, finish · To what, where: Sh sh, story · 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 (Alice, Hatter, Dormouse, 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 beginning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beginning	aux
3	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 angrily	advmod
5	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	3 beginning	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Hatter	det
9	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Hare	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Hare	det
12	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Hare	compound
13	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Hatter	conj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beginning	conj
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 sh	punct
16	Sh	Sh	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sh	compound
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Sh	punct
18	sh	sh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 sh	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 sh	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 remarked	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Dormouse	det
23	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 remarked	nsubj
24	sulkily	sulkily	ADV	_	25 remarked	advmod
25	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 went	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 ’d	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 ’d	punct
28	If	if	SCONJ	_	33 civil	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 civil	nsubj
30	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 civil	aux
31	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 civil	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 civil	cop
33	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ’d	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 civil	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 ’d	nsubj
36	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
37	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 ’d	xcomp
38	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 ’d	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 story	det
40	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 finish	obj
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 yourself	case
42	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 finish	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beginning	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 beginning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past · progressive	Alice		angrily property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	go	past	the Hatter and the March Hare	Sh sh		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	remark speech: assert	participle	the Dormouse		sulkily property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you		civil property	tree rules
5	have in a quote	past	you		good property	tree rules
6	finish in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the story	for yourself	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality story=Eventuality

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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