Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 80

“It’s no use speaking to it,” she thought, “till its ears have come, or at least one of them.”

Who acts: sound, use, eye · What happens: be, speak, think, come · To what, where: use, sound · 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 (sound, use, eye), 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	_	5 use	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 use	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 use	det
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	obl
6	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 use	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 speaking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 speaking	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
15	till	till	ADP	_	17 ears	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 ears	nmod:poss
17	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	obl
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 thought	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 one	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 least	case
23	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 one	nmod
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 come	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 one	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	sound	no use			tree rules
2	speak speech: other in a quote	gerund	no use not said here		sound		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent
3	think speech: other	past	eye				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	come in a quote	present · perfect				till sound's ears	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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