Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 78
“You’re enough to try the patience of an oyster!”
Who acts: You · What happens: be, try · To what, where: patience
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 (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 | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ’re | nsubj |
| 3 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 ’re | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 try | mark |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ’re | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 patience | det |
| 8 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 try | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 oyster | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 oyster | det |
| 11 | oyster | oyster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 patience | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | You | enough property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | the patience of a oyster | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality |
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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