Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 100

“I—I’m a little girl,” said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she had gone through that day.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: be, say, remember, go · To what, where: little girl, number, changes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar. 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.

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	_	11 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ’m	nsubj
3	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 I	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ’m	nsubj
5	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girl	amod
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ’m	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ’m	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 ’m	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 doubtfully	punct
14	rather	rather	ADV	_	15 doubtfully	advmod
15	doubtfully	doubtfully	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 remembered	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 remembered	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 remembered	nsubj
19	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 number	det
21	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remembered	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 changes	case
23	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 number	nmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gone	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	aux
26	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 changes	acl:relcl
27	through	through	ADP	_	29 day	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gone	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	Alice	a little girl			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Alice			doubtfully property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	remember	past	Alice	the number of changes			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme
4	go	past · perfect	Alice	changes not said here	day		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location change=Theme

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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