Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 65

“That would be grand, certainly,” said Alice thoughtfully: “but then—I shouldn’t be hungry for it, you know.”

Who acts: That, Alice, you · What happens: be, say, not be, know · 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 (That, Alice, 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	_	5 grand	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 grand	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grand	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 grand	cop
5	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grand	punct
7	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 grand	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grand	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 grand	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	_	11 Alice	advmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 hungry	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 hungry	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 hungry	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 hungry	advmod
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 hungry	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 hungry	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hungry	aux
20	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 hungry	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 hungry	cop
22	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hungry	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
27	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hungry	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 hungry	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	would	That		certainly, grand property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	should	Alice	then	for dinner; hungry property	tree rules
4	know in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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