Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 21

Leaving, the Caterpillar says "One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter", and, as if hearing her thought, adds "Of the mushroom."

Who acts: Caterpillar, One side, you, other side, side · What happens: leave, say, make, grow, hear, add · To what, where: you, thought · 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 (Caterpillar, One side, you, other side), 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	Leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 says	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Leaving	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Caterpillar	det
4	Caterpillar	caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
7	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 side	nummod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 make	aux
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	xcomp
13	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 grow	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 make	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 side	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 side	amod
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 make	aux
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 make	obj
22	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 make	xcomp
23	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 grow	xcomp
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 adds	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 adds	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 and	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 hearing	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 hearing	mark
30	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 adds	advcl
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 thought	nmod:poss
32	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hearing	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hearing	punct
34	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	conj
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 mushroom	punct
36	Of	of	ADP	_	38 mushroom	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 mushroom	det
38	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 adds	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 mushroom	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 mushroom	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund	the Caterpillar not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	the Caterpillar			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make in a quote	future	One side	you		tree rules
4	grow in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make in a quote	future	the other side	you		tree rules
6	grow in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		short property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hear	gerund		side's thought		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thought=Stimulus
8	add speech: assert	present	the Caterpillar not said here		of the mushroom	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
9	think		side			nom thought «cognition 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.

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:21.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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