Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 38

“It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!”

Who acts: watch, o’clock · What happens: tell, not tell, be · 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 (watch, o’clock), 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 tells	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 month	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 month	det
8	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tell	cc
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 tell	advmod
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tells	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 tell	ccomp
15	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 what	nsubj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 what	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 what	cop
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	watch	day	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	present · do-support	watch not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	o’clock		tree rules

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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