Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 1

Every answer she gives, the Caterpillar contradicts in a few rude words, and when she asks who IT is, it just says "Why?", so she starts to walk away.

Who acts: Alice, Caterpillar, answer · What happens: give, contradict, ask, be, say, start · To what, where: answer, few rude words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, Caterpillar, answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 answer	det
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 contradicts	obj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 answer	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 contradicts	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Caterpillar	det
7	Caterpillar	caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 contradicts	nsubj
8	contradicts	contradict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 words	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 words	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 words	amod
12	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 words	amod
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 contradicts	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asks	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 asks	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 asks	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asks	nsubj
18	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 contradicts	conj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 asks	ccomp
20	IT	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 who	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 who	cop
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 is	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 says	nsubj
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 says	advmod
25	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 contradicts	conj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Why	punct
27	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	25 says	parataxis
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 Why	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Why	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 starts	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 starts	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 starts	nsubj
33	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 contradicts	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 walk	mark
35	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 starts	xcomp
36	away	away	ADV	_	35 walk	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 contradicts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	present	Alice	every answer not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
2	contradict	present	the Caterpillar	every answer	a few rude words		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	present	Alice				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	answer				tree rules
5	say speech: assert	present	answer				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	start	present	Alice				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	walk away	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:1.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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