Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 15
“You should learn not to make personal remarks,” Alice said with some severity; “it’s very rude.”
Who acts: You, Alice, severity · What happens: learn, not make, say, be · To what, where: personal remarks · 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, Alice, severity), 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 learn | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 learn | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 learn | aux |
| 4 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 make | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 learn | ccomp |
| 8 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 remarks | amod |
| 9 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 learn | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 learn | punct |
| 12 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 learn | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 severity | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 severity | det |
| 16 | severity | severity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 rude | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 rude | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 rude | nsubj |
| 20 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 rude | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 rude | advmod |
| 22 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 learn | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learn | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn in a quote | should | You | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not make in a quote | to-infinitive | personal remarks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset remark=Product | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | with some severity | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with severity=Manner | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | severity | rude property | tree rules |
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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