Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 5
The Caterpillar speaks in "a languid, sleepy voice" ("languid" = slow and lazy) and asks "Who are you?"
Who acts: Caterpillar, you · What happens: speak, ask, be · To what, where: languid sleepy voice · 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, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caterpillar | det |
| 2 | Caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speaks | nsubj |
| 3 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 voice | case |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 voice | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 7 | languid | languid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voice | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 languid | punct |
| 9 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voice | amod |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speaks | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 voice | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 languid | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 languid | punct |
| 14 | languid | languid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voice | appos |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 languid | punct |
| 16 | = | = | SYM | _ | 17 slow | dep |
| 17 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 languid | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lazy | cc |
| 19 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 slow | conj |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 languid | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 asks | cc |
| 22 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 speaks | conj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Who | punct |
| 24 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 asks | ccomp |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Who | cop |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 Who | nsubj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 speaks | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 speaks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | the Caterpillar | a languid sleepy voice | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | the Caterpillar not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | 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:5.
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, R7-rel-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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