Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 6
Alice answers "I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."
Who acts: Alice · What happens: answer, know, be, get up, think, change · To what, where: present, least, 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), 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 answers | nsubj |
| 2 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 answers | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | reparandum |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 I | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 7 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 answers | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 10 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 know | vocative |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 present | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 present | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 present | case |
| 14 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 know | obl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 least | case |
| 17 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 know | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | conj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 know | ccomp |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 who | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 who | cop |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 got | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 got | nsubj |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 who | advcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 got | compound:prt |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 morning | det |
| 28 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 think | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 think | cc |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 think | nsubj |
| 32 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | conj |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 changed | nsubj |
| 34 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 changed | aux |
| 35 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 changed | aux |
| 36 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 changed | aux:pass |
| 37 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 think | ccomp |
| 38 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 times | amod |
| 39 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 changed | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | since | since | ADP | _ | 41 then | case |
| 41 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 changed | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answers | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 answers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | present | Alice | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | Alice | present | sir vocative; hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | Alice | least | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | Alice | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | get up in a quote | past | Alice | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | change in a quote | must · perfect · passive | Alice | time | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:6.
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. 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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