Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 53
“If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting _it_.
Who acts: you, Hatter · What happens: know, do, say, not talk, waste · To what, where: Time, idea · 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, Hatter), 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 knew | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 5 | Time | Time | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 knew | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 well | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hatter | det |
| 15 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 talk | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 talk | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 talk | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 talk | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 talk | advmod |
| 21 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | conj |
| 22 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 23 wasting | mark |
| 23 | wasting | waste | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 talk | obl |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 it | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wasting | obl |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 wasting | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | Time | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | the Hatter = hatter | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Hatter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not talk in a quote | would | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | waste in a quote | gerund | idea | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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