Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 120
“No, please go on!”
Who acts: you · What happens: go on
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), 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 | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 5 go | discourse |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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