Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 56

“It _is_ a long tail, certainly,” said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse’s tail; “but why do you call it sad?”

Who acts: tale, long tail, you · What happens: be, say, look down, call · To what, where: long tail, tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tale, long tail, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 tail	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tail	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 It	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tail	cop
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 tail	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tail	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tail	amod
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tail	punct
10	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	8 tail	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tail	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 tail	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looking	punct
16	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 looking	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 wonder	case
19	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looking	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	24 tail	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Mouse	det
22	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 tail	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Mouse	case
24	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looking	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 call	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 call	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 call	cc
28	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	31 call	advmod
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 call	aux
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 call	nsubj
31	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	parataxis
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 call	obj
33	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 call	xcomp
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 call	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	tale	a long tail	certainly property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	a long tail			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look down	gerund	a long tail not said here		with wonder; at the Mouse's tail; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tail=Theme
4	call in a quote	present · do-support	you	tale	sad property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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.

Text: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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