Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 13

“Would you tell me,” said Alice, a little timidly, “why you are painting those roses?”

Who acts: you, Alice · What happens: tell, say, paint · To what, where: Alice, roses · 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 (you, Alice), 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 timidly	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 little	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 timidly	obl:unmarked
13	timidly	timidly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Alice	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 painting	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 painting	punct
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 painting	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 painting	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 painting	aux
19	painting	paint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
20	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 roses	det
21	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 painting	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 painting	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 painting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	would	you		Alice	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	say speech: ask	past	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	paint in a quote	present · progressive	you	that roses		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent rose=Destination

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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