Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 29

I needn’t be afraid of them!”

Who acts: I · What happens: need, not be

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 afraid	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 afraid	cop
5	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 need	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 afraid	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	not is not said to happen	infinitive	I not said here					of name; afraid property	tree rules

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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