Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 7
She says "I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir, because I'm not myself, you see"; "not myself" can mean feeling strange, and Alice also means it truly: she has changed.
Who acts: Alice, you, myself · What happens: say, not explain, be, not be, see, mean · To what, where: Alice, least · 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, you, myself), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 explain | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 explain | nsubj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 explain | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 explain | advmod |
| 7 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 explain | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 afraid | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 afraid | nsubj |
| 11 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 afraid | cop |
| 12 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 explain | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sir | punct |
| 14 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 afraid | vocative |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 myself | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 myself | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 myself | nsubj |
| 18 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 myself | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 myself | advmod |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 explain | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | advcl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 mean | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 mean | punct |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 myself | advmod |
| 28 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 mean | nsubj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 myself | punct |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 mean | aux |
| 31 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 says | ccomp |
| 32 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 mean | xcomp |
| 33 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 feeling | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 means | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 means | cc |
| 36 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 means | nsubj |
| 37 | also | also | ADV | _ | 38 means | advmod |
| 38 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 mean | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 means | obj |
| 40 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 38 means | advmod |
| 41 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 44 changed | punct |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 changed | nsubj |
| 43 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 changed | aux |
| 44 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 says | parataxis |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not explain speech: assert in a quote | can | Alice | Alice | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Alice | sir vocative; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | Alice | Alice | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | mean | can | myself | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | feel not said to happen | gerund | myself not said here | strange property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | mean | present | Alice | least | truly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 9 | change | present · perfect | Alice | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:7.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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