Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 106

“I _have_ tasted eggs, certainly,” said Alice, who was a very truthful child; “but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.”

Who acts: Alice, little girls, serpents, you · What happens: have, taste, say, be, eat, do · To what, where: _, truthful child, eggs · 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, little girls, serpents, 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	_	4 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
5	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 eggs	amod
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 _	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
9	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 child	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 child	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 child	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 child	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 truthful	advmod
19	truthful	truthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 child	amod
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Alice	appos
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 eat	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 eat	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 eat	cc
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 girls	amod
25	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 eat	nsubj
26	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
27	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 eat	obj
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 eat	obj
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 do	mark
32	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 do	nsubj
33	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 much	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 know	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 know	nsubj
36	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 eat	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Alice	_ and tasted eggs	certainly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent _=Patient
2	taste in a quote	participle				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a	past	Alice	a truthful child		tree rules
5	eat in a quote	present	little girls	eggs		tree rules
6	do in a quote	present	serpents			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	know in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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