Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 143

“Then you shouldn’t talk,” said the Hatter.

Who acts: you, Hatter · What happens: not talk, say · 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	_	6 talk	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 talk	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 talk	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 talk	advmod
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Hatter	det
11	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk in a quote	should	you				then		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Hatter						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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