Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 102

“I’ve seen a good many little girls in my time, but never _one_ with such a neck as that!

Who acts: Pigeon · What happens: see · To what, where: good many little girls

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 (Pigeon), 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	_	4 seen	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
3	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girls	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girls	amod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girls	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girls	amod
9	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seen	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 time	nmod:poss
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 girls	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 neck	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 neck	cc
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 one	advmod
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 one	punct
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 neck	nsubj
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 neck	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 neck	case
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 neck	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 neck	det
22	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obl
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 that	case
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 neck	nmod
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present · perfect	the Pigeon = pigeon	a good many little girls			in my time	with such neck as that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus

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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