Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 133

“You can draw water out of a water-well,” said the Hatter; “so I should think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well—eh, stupid?”

Who acts: You, Hatter · What happens: draw, say, think · To what, where: water, treacle · 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	_	4 draw	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 draw	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 draw	aux
4	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 draw	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 water	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 draw	obl
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 well	punct
11	well	well	INTJ	_	9 water	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 well	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 draw	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Hatter	det
16	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 think	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 think	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 think	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 think	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 think	aux
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 draw	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 draw	aux
25	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 think	ccomp
26	treacle	treacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 draw	obj
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 treacle	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 treacle	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 treacle	det
30	treacle	treacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 draw	obl
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 well	punct
32	well	well	INTJ	_	30 treacle	discourse
33	—	-	PUNCT	_	32 well	punct
34	eh	eh	INTJ	_	22 think	discourse
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stupid	punct
36	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 think	parataxis
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 think	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	draw in a quote	can	You	water	a water	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme out water=Initial_Location
2	say speech: ask	past	the Hatter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other in a quote	should	the Hatter = hatter			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	draw in a quote	could	you	treacle	a treacle	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent treacle=Theme out treacle=Initial_Location

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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