Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 62

For instance, suppose it were nine o’clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you’d only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling!

Who acts: you, instance · What happens: suppose, be, begin, 'd, have, whisper · To what, where: nine o’clock, lessons, hint, clock, twinkling · 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, instance), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 instance	case
2	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suppose	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 instance	punct
4	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 o’clock	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 o’clock	cop
7	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 o’clock	nummod
8	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suppose	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 morning	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 morning	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 o’clock	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 time	advmod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 o’clock	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 begin	mark
16	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 time	acl
17	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 begin	obj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 ’d	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 ’d	nsubj
20	’d	'd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suppose	conj
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 have	advmod
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ’d	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 whisper	mark
24	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ’d	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hint	det
26	hint	hint	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 whisper	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 Time	case
28	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 whisper	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 goes	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 goes	cc
31	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 goes	amod
32	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suppose	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 clock	det
34	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 goes	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 twinkling	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 twinkling	det
37	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 goes	obl
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suppose	imperative	you not said here				for instance	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	instance	nine o’clock and time		morning		tree rules
3	begin	to-infinitive	instance not said here	lessons				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Eventuality
4	'd	present	you					tree rules
5	have	present	you not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	whisper speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here	a hint		time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hint=Topic
7	go	present	you not said here	the clock	a twinkling			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clock=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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