Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 4

At last it crawls away, saying that one side of the mushroom will make her taller and the other side shorter: a prickly, puzzling talk that ends with a real clue.

Who acts: size, one side, prickly puzzling talk · What happens: crawl away, say, make, end · To what, where: 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 (size, one side, prickly puzzling talk), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 crawls	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crawls	nsubj
4	crawls	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 crawls	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 crawls	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 make	mark
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 side	nummod
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 mushroom	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mushroom	det
13	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 side	nmod
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 saying	ccomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	obj
17	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 make	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shorter	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 side	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 side	amod
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shorter	nsubj
22	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 taller	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 talk	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 talk	det
25	prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 talk	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 puzzling	punct
27	puzzling	puzzle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 talk	amod
28	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crawls	advcl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 ends	nsubj
30	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 talk	acl:relcl
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 clue	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 clue	det
33	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 clue	amod
34	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ends	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crawls	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	crawl away	present	size		away, last property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	size not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	future	one side of the mushroom	Alice	tall property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product
4	end	present	a prickly puzzling talk		with a real clue	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with clue=Subeventuality

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:4.

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. 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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