Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 19

Alice says "three inches is such a wretched height to be" ("wretched" = miserable), and the Caterpillar, "exactly three inches high", says "It is a very good height indeed!"

Who acts: Alice, three inches, Caterpillar, height · What happens: say, be · To what, where: wretched height, good height · 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, three inches, Caterpillar, height), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 height	punct
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 inches	nummod
5	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 height	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 height	cop
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 height	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 height	det
9	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 height	amod
10	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 be	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 wretched	cop
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 wretched	punct
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 wretched	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 wretched	punct
16	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 height	parataxis
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 wretched	punct
18	=	=	PUNCT	_	19 miserable	punct
19	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wretched	conj
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 wretched	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 says	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 says	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Caterpillar	det
24	Caterpillar	caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 says	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Caterpillar	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 high	punct
27	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	28 three	advmod
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 inches	nummod
29	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 high	obl
30	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Caterpillar	amod
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 high	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 says	punct
33	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 height	punct
35	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 height	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 height	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 height	det
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 good	advmod
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 height	amod
40	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 says	ccomp
41	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	40 height	advmod
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	40 height	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 height	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	three inches	such wretched height		tree rules
3	is in a quote	infinitive			wretched property	tree rules
4	be					tree rules
5	say speech: express	present	the Caterpillar			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present	height	a good height	indeed property	tree rules

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:19.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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