Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 13

In "You are old, Father William" a young man asks his father, in this order, why he stands on his head, how he turns a back-somersault, how he ate a whole goose with the bones and the beak, and how he balances an eel on his nose; the old man says his jaw got strong because he "argued each case with my wife".

Who acts: father, young man, man, old man, jaw · What happens: be, ask, stand, turn, eat, balance · To what, where: father, order, head, back somersault, whole goose, eel · 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 (father, young man, man, old man), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 old	case
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
3	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 old	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 asks	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 William	punct
7	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 William	compound
8	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 old	appos
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asks	nsubj
13	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asks	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 order	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 order	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 order	det
19	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asks	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stands	punct
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 stands	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stands	nsubj
23	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 asks	ccomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stands	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 turns	punct
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 turns	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 turns	nsubj
30	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 asks	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 somersault	det
32	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 somersault	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 back	punct
34	somersault	somersault	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turns	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ate	punct
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 ate	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ate	nsubj
38	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asks	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 goose	det
40	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 goose	amod
41	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ate	obj
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 bones	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 bones	det
44	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 ate	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 beak	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 beak	det
47	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bones	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 balances	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 balances	cc
50	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	52 balances	advmod
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 balances	nsubj
52	balances	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 asks	conj
53	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 eel	det
54	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 balances	obj
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 nose	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 nose	nmod:poss
57	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 balances	obl
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 says	punct
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 man	det
60	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 man	amod
61	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 says	nsubj
62	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 asks	parataxis
63	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 jaw	nmod:poss
64	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 got	nsubj
65	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 says	ccomp
66	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 got	xcomp
67	because	because	SCONJ	_	70 argued	mark
68	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 argued	nsubj
69	"	"	PUNCT	_	70 argued	punct
70	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 got	advcl
71	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	72 case	det
72	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 argued	obj
73	with	with	ADP	_	75 wife	case
74	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	75 wife	nmod:poss
75	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 argued	obl
76	"	"	PUNCT	_	70 argued	punct
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	man's father = father				old property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	present	a young man		man's father	this order		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
3	stand	present	man			man's head		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location
4	turn	present	man	a back somersault				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme
5	eat	past	man	a whole goose			with the bones and the beak	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Patient
6	balance	present	man	a eel		man's nose		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eel=Theme on nose=Location
7	say speech: assert	present	the old man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	get	past	man's jaw				strong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	argue speech: disagree in a quote	past	jaw	each case			with my wife	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent case=Topic with wife=Co-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.

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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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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