Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 90

“I’d rather not,” the Cat remarked.

Who acts: I · What happens: not have, remark · To what, where: Cat · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 ’d	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ’d	nsubj
3	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 not	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 ’d	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ’d	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 ’d	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cat	det
9	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ’d	obj
10	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Cat	acl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ’d	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have in a quote	past	I	the Cat					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient
2	remark speech: assert	participle		the Cat not said here					vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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