Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 34

“Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,” the Hatter grumbled: “you shouldn’t have put it in with the bread-knife.”

Who acts: crumbs, Hatter, you · What happens: get in, grumble, not put in · To what, where: butter · 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 (crumbs, Hatter, you), 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	_	17 grumbled	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 got	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 crumbs	det
6	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 got	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 got	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 got	aux
9	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 grumbled	parataxis
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 got	advmod
11	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	9 got	advmod
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 as	fixed
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Hatter	det
16	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 grumbled	nsubj
17	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 grumbled	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 put	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 put	aux
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 put	advmod
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 put	aux
24	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 grumbled	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	24 put	compound:prt
27	with	with	ADP	_	31 knife	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 knife	det
29	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 knife	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 bread	punct
31	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 grumbled	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 grumbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in in a quote	must · perfect	some crumbs			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	grumble speech: other	past	the Hatter			vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not put in in a quote	should · perfect	you	butter	with the bread knife	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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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