Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 7
“_You’d_ better not talk!” said Five.
Who acts: You · What happens: have, not talk, say · To what, where: Five · 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), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 ’d | punct |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ’d | nsubj |
| 4 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 ’d | punct |
| 6 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 ’d | advmod |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 talk | advmod |
| 8 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ’d | advcl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 talk | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ’d | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | You | well property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not talk in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Five | 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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