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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 26

“You might just as well say,” added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, “that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!”

Who acts: You, Dormouse, March Hare, that, three · What happens: say, add, seem, talk, breathe, sleep · To what, where: sleep, 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, Dormouse, 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

punctnsubjauxadvmodccfixedccomppunctpunctdetobjpunctnsubjacl:relclmarkauxxcompcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctnsubjpunctnsubjparataxismarknsubjadvclpunctcopdetamodparataxismarkpunctnsubjadvclmarknsubjconjpunctpunctpunctroot“PUNCTYouPRONmightAUXjustADVasADVwellADVsayVERB,PUNCT”PUNCTaddedVERBtheDETDormousePROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONseemedVERBtoPARTbeAUXtalkingVERBinADPhisPRONsleepNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTthatPRON‘PUNCTIPRONbreatheVERBwhenSCONJIPRONsleepVERB’PUNCTisAUXtheDETsameADJthingNOUNasSCONJ‘PUNCTIPRONsleepVERBwhenSCONJIPRONbreatheVERB’PUNCT!PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_7 saypunct
2YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs7 saynsubj
3mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin7 sayaux
4justjustADV_7 sayadvmod
5asasADVExtPos=CCONJ7 saycc
6wellwellADVDegree=Pos5 asfixed
7saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf10 addedccomp
8,,PUNCT_7 saypunct
9”"PUNCT_7 saypunct
10addedaddVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 Dormousedet
12DormouseDormousePROPNNumber=Sing10 addedobj
13,,PUNCT_15 seemedpunct
14whowhoPRONPronType=Rel15 seemednsubj
15seemedseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 Dormouseacl:relcl
16totoPART_18 talkingmark
17bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf18 talkingaux
18talkingtalkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 seemedxcomp
19ininADP_21 sleepcase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 sleepnmod:poss
21sleepsleepNOUNNumber=Sing18 talkingobl
22,,PUNCT_35 thingpunct
23“"PUNCT_35 thingpunct
24thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem35 thingnsubj
25‘'PUNCT_27 breathepunct
26IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs27 breathensubj
27breathebreatheVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 thatparataxis
28whenwhenSCONJ_30 sleepmark
29IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs30 sleepnsubj
30sleepsleepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 breatheadvcl
31’'PUNCT_27 breathepunct
32isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 thingcop
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 thingdet
34samesameADJDegree=Pos35 thingamod
35thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing18 talkingparataxis
36asasSCONJ_39 sleepmark
37‘'PUNCT_39 sleeppunct
38IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs39 sleepnsubj
39sleepsleepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 thingadvcl
40whenwhenSCONJ_42 breathemark
41IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs42 breathensubj
42breathebreatheVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin39 sleepconj
43’'PUNCT_42 breathepunct
44!!PUNCT_35 thingpunct
45”"PUNCT_15 seemedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assert in a quotemightYouvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2add speech: assertpastthe Dormousevn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3seempastthe Dormousevn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4talkto-infinitive · progressivethe Dormouse not said herethree's sleeptree rules
5breathe in a quotepresentthe March Hare = harevn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6sleep in a quotepresentthe March Hare = harevn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7is a in a quotepresentthatthe same thingtree rules
8sleep in a quotepresentthe March Hare = harevn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9breathe in a quotepresentthe March Hare = harevn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10sleepthreenom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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