Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 20

Alice thinks "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!"; back in chapter III she said the same to the Mouse: "you're so easily offended, you know!"; the Caterpillar tells her "You'll get used to it in time."

Who acts: Alice, Mouse, Caterpillar · What happens: think, wish, not offend, say, be, know · To what, where: creatures, same, Mouse, chapter, Alice · 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, Mouse, Caterpillar), 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 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 wish	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 wish	nsubj
5	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 creatures	det
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 offended	nsubj:pass
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 offended	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 offended	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 offended	aux:pass
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 easily	advmod
12	easily	easily	ADV	_	13 offended	advmod
13	offended	offend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wish	ccomp
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 wish	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 wish	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
17	back	back	ADV	_	22 said	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 chapter	case
19	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
20	III	III	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	19 chapter	flat
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 same	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 Mouse	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Mouse	det
27	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 offended	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 offended	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 offended	nsubj
31	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 offended	cop
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 easily	advmod
33	easily	easily	ADV	_	34 offended	advmod
34	offended	offended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 know	punct
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 know	nsubj
37	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 offended	parataxis
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 know	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 know	punct
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 tells	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Caterpillar	det
42	Caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 tells	nsubj
43	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	parataxis
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 tells	obj
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 used	punct
46	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 get	nsubj
47	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 get	aux
48	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 used	aux:pass
49	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 tells	ccomp
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 it	case
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 used	obl
52	in	in	ADP	_	53 time	case
53	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 used	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 offended	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 offended	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=narrate, indirect=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Alice						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wish in a quote	present	Alice						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	not offend in a quote	would · passive		the creatures				easily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	say speech: express	past	Alice	the same	the Mouse	chapter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent same=Topic to mouse=Recipient
5	is in a quote	present	the Mouse = mouse					easily, offended property	tree rules
6	know in a quote	present	the Mouse = mouse						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	tell speech: assert	present	the Caterpillar		Alice				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
8	use in a quote	infinitive · passive			Mouse		time		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»

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:20.

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 ×5, R7-rel-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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