Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 32

“I told you butter wouldn’t suit the works!” he added looking angrily at the March Hare.

Who acts: I, butter, wrong · What happens: tell, not suit, add, look · To what, where: you, works · 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 (I, butter, wrong), 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	_	3 told	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 suit	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 suit	aux
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 suit	advmod
8	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 works	det
10	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 suit	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 suit	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 added	nsubj
14	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
15	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 added	advcl
16	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	15 looking	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 Hare	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Hare	det
19	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Hare	compound
20	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 looking	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not suit in a quote	would	butter	the works			tree rules
3	add speech: assert	past	wrong				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	look	gerund	wrong not said here			at the March Hare; angrily property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hare=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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