Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 18

Asked what size she wants to be, Alice first says "I'm not particular as to size", but adds that "one doesn't like changing so often".

Who acts: Alice, side, one · What happens: ask, want, be, say, not be, add · 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, side, one), 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	Asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 says	advcl
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 size	det
3	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asked	ccomp
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wants	nsubj
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Asked	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 be	mark
7	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
10	first	first	ADV	_	11 says	advmod
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 particular	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 particular	nsubj
14	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 particular	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 particular	advmod
16	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 says	ccomp
17	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	19 size	case
18	to	to	PART	_	17 as	fixed
19	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 particular	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 particular	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 adds	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 adds	cc
23	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 like	mark
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 like	punct
26	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 like	nsubj
27	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 like	aux
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 like	advmod
29	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 adds	ccomp
30	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 like	xcomp
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 often	advmod
32	often	often	ADV	_	30 changing	advmod
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 like	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Alice not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present	side		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	be not said to happen	to-infinitive	side not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	Alice	first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not is in a quote	present	Alice	as size; particular property	tree rules
6	add speech: assert	present	Alice not said here		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not like in a quote	present · do-support	one		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	change not said to happen, in a quote	gerund	one not said here	often property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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:18.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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