Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 128

“I want a clean cup,” interrupted the Hatter: “let’s all move one place on.”

Who acts: Treacle, ’s · What happens: want, interrupt, let, move on · To what, where: clean cup, Hatter, one place · 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 (Treacle, ’s), 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	_	3 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 interrupted	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cup	det
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cup	amod
6	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
9	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Hatter	det
11	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 interrupted	obj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 interrupted	parataxis
15	’s	we	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 move	nsubj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 move	advmod
17	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 let	ccomp
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 place	nummod
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 move	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	17 move	compound:prt
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	Treacle	a clean cup	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cup=Theme
2	interrupt	past		the Hatter	tree rules
3	let in a quote	infinitive			tree rules
4	move on in a quote	present	’s	one place	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent place=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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