Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 25

“You might just as well say,” added the March Hare, “that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!”

Who acts: You, March Hare, that · What happens: say, add, like, get, 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, March Hare, that), 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	VerbForm=Inf	10 added	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
10	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Hare	det
12	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Hare	compound
13	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 added	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thing	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 thing	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 thing	nsubj
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 like	nsubj
19	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 that	parataxis
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 get	obj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 get	nsubj
22	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 like	ccomp
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 thing	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 thing	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thing	amod
27	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 added	parataxis
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 get	mark
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 get	nsubj
31	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 thing	advcl
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 like	obj
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 like	nsubj
34	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 get	ccomp
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 thing	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	might	You		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	add speech: express	past	the March Hare		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like in a quote	present	the March Hare = hare		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	get in a quote	present	the March Hare = hare		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	is a in a quote	present	that	the same thing	tree rules
6	get in a quote	present	the March Hare = hare		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	like in a quote	present	the March Hare = hare		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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