Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 11

“Yes, it _is_ his business!” said Five, “and I’ll tell him—it was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.”

Who acts: Seven, business · What happens: be, say, tell, bring · To what, where: business, Five, tulip roots, cook · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seven, business), 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	_	9 business	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 business	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 business	nsubj
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 it	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 business	cop
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 business	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 business	nmod:poss
9	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 business	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 business	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	nsubj
18	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	aux
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 bringing	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bringing	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bringing	aux
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 bringing	mark
25	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cook	det
27	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bringing	iobj
28	tulip	tulip	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 roots	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 tulip	punct
30	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bringing	obj
31	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	33 onions	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 instead	fixed
33	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bringing	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 bringing	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 bringing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Seven	Seven's business			tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	Seven's business	Five			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	Seven's business = business		business		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	bring in a quote	past · progressive	Seven	tulip roots	the cook	instead onions	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent cook=Destination root=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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