Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 61

Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he’d do almost anything you liked with the clock.

Who acts: you, Hatter · What happens: keep, 'd, do, like · To what, where: good terms, anything

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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 kept	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 kept	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 kept	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 kept	advmod
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 terms	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 terms	amod
9	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 terms	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ’d	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ’d	nsubj
14	’d	'd	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obl
15	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	parataxis
16	almost	almost	ADV	_	17 anything	advmod
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 do	obj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 liked	nsubj
19	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 anything	acl:relcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 clock	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 clock	det
22	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 liked	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	you		good terms with Hatter	now		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on term=Location
2	'd		Hatter					tree rules
3	do	present		anything				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
4	like	past	you				with the clock	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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