Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 8

Alice says "being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing", and the Caterpillar answers "It isn't".

Who acts: Alice, many different sizes, Caterpillar · What happens: say, be, answer · To what, where: many different sizes · 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, many different sizes, Caterpillar), 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 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 confusing	punct
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sizes	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sizes	amod
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sizes	amod
8	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 confusing	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sizes	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 confusing	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 confusing	advmod
14	confusing	confusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 confusing	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 answers	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 answers	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Caterpillar	det
19	Caterpillar	caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 answers	nsubj
20	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 n't	punct
22	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 is	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 n't	cop
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 answers	ccomp
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 n't	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	gerund		many different sizes	day		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	many different sizes			confusing property	tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	present	the Caterpillar				vn reciprocate-112-1 «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:8.

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, 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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