Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 24

“You might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!”

Who acts: You, I · What happens: say, see, eat, be · To what, where: same thing · 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, I), 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	_	7 say	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	7 say	cc
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 as	fixed
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 see	mark
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
11	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 thing	nsubj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 eat	nsubj
14	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 eat	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 thing	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thing	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	ccomp
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 eat	mark
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 eat	nsubj
23	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 see	advcl
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 see	obj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 see	nsubj
26	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 eat	conj
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: express in a quote	might	You		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	present	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	eat in a quote	present	I		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present		the same thing	tree rules
5	eat in a quote	present	I		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see in a quote	present	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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