Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 3
Don’t go splashing paint over me like that!”
Who acts: you · What happens: not go, splash · To what, where: paint
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), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 go | advmod |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | splashing | splash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 go | xcomp |
| 5 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 splashing | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 splashing | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 splashing | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | splash | gerund | you not said here | paint | over me; like that | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paint=Theme over i=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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