Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 107

“I don’t believe it,” said the Pigeon; “but if they do, why then they’re a kind of serpent, that’s all I can say.”

Who acts: Pigeon, eggs · What happens: not believe, say, do, 're · To what, where: child, kind · 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 (Pigeon, eggs), 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	_	5 believe	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 believe	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 believe	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 believe	advmod
5	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 believe	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 believe	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 believe	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Pigeon	det
11	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 ’re	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 ’re	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 ’re	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 do	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
17	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 ’re	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
19	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 then	advmod
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 ’re	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ’re	nsubj
22	’re	're	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 kind	det
24	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ’re	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 serpent	case
26	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kind	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 all	punct
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 all	nsubj
29	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 all	cop
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 ’re	conj
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 say	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 say	aux
33	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 all	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not believe in a quote	present · do-support	the Pigeon = pigeon	child		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Pigeon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	eggs = egg			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	're in a quote	past	eggs = egg	a kind of serpent	then	tree rules
5	say speech: assert in a quote	can	the Pigeon = pigeon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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