Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 104
You’re a serpent; and there’s no use denying it.
Who acts: You, use · What happens: be, deny · To what, where: serpent, use
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 (You, use), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 ’re | nsubj |
| 2 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 serpent | det |
| 4 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ’re | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 ’s | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ’s | cc |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 ’s | expl |
| 8 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ’re | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 use | det |
| 10 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ’s | obj |
| 11 | denying | deny | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 use | acl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 denying | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’re | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | You | a serpent | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot serpent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | deny | gerund | no use not said here | use | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=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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