Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 14

Father William's answers are silly: he no longer fears hurting his brain because he is "perfectly sure I have none", and he tries to sell his son an ointment at "one shilling the box" (a shilling was an old British coin).

Who acts: answers, father, old man, shilling · What happens: be, fear, hurt, have, try, sell · To what, where: brain, none, ointment, son, one shilling, old British coin · 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 (answers, father, old man, shilling), 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	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 answers	nmod:poss
2	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Father	flat
3	's	's	PART	_	1 Father	case
4	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 silly	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 silly	cop
6	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 silly	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fears	nsubj
9	no	no	ADV	_	10 longer	advmod
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 fears	advmod
11	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 silly	parataxis
12	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 fears	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brain	nmod:poss
14	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hurting	obj
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 sure	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sure	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sure	cop
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 sure	punct
19	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	20 sure	advmod
20	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hurting	advcl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sure	ccomp
23	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	22 have	obj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 sure	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tries	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tries	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tries	nsubj
28	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 silly	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 sell	mark
30	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 tries	xcomp
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 son	nmod:poss
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sell	iobj
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 ointment	det
34	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sell	obj
35	at	at	ADP	_	38 shilling	case
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 shilling	punct
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 shilling	nummod
38	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sell	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 box	det
40	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shilling	obj
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 box	punct
42	(	(	PUNCT	_	49 coin	punct
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 shilling	det
44	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 coin	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 coin	cop
46	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 coin	det
47	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 coin	amod
48	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 coin	amod
49	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 silly	parataxis
50	)	)	PUNCT	_	49 coin	punct
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 silly	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Father's answers				silly property	tree rules
2	fear	present	father				long property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	hurt	gerund	father not said here	father's brain				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brain=Patient
4	is in a quote	present	father				perfectly, sure property	tree rules
5	have in a quote	present	the old man = man	none				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient
6	try	present	father					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here	a ointment	father's son	one shilling		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent son=Recipient ointment=Theme at shilling=Asset
8	is a	past	a shilling	a old British coin				tree rules
9	answer		Father					nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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 ×1. 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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