Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 108

This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent for a minute or two, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of adding, “You’re looking for eggs, I know _that_ well enough; and what does it matter to me whether you’re a little girl or a serpent?”

Who acts: This, Alice, new idea, opportunity, You · What happens: be, give, add, 're, look, know · To what, where: new idea, Alice, opportunity, Pigeon, little girl · 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 (This, Alice, new idea, opportunity), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 idea	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	cop
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 idea	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Alice	case
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 idea	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 silent	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 silent	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 silent	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 silent	cop
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 silent	advmod
14	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 minute	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 minute	det
17	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 silent	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 two	cc
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 minute	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Pigeon	det
24	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 opportunity	det
26	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 adding	mark
28	adding	add	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 opportunity	acl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ’re	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 ’re	punct
31	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 ’re	nsubj
32	’re	're	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 adding	conj
33	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 ’re	xcomp
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 eggs	case
35	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 looking	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 know	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 know	nsubj
38	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	parataxis
39	_	_	ADP	_	40 that	case
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 know	obl
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 well	punct
42	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 know	advmod
43	enough	enough	ADV	_	42 well	advmod
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 matter	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 matter	cc
46	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	49 matter	obj
47	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 matter	aux
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 matter	expl
49	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 idea	parataxis
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 me	case
51	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 matter	obl
52	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	54 ’re	mark
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 ’re	nsubj
54	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 matter	advcl
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 girl	det
56	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 girl	amod
57	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 ’re	obj
58	or	or	CCONJ	_	60 serpent	cc
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 serpent	det
60	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 girl	conj
61	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct
62	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	such new idea	Alice			tree rules
2	is	past	Alice			minute	silent property	tree rules
3	give	past	such new idea	the opportunity	the Pigeon			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Recipient opportunity=Theme
4	add speech: ask	gerund	the opportunity not said here					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	're in a quote	past	You					tree rules
6	look in a quote	gerund	You not said here				for eggs	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for egg=Theme
7	know in a quote	present	the opportunity = opportunity				_ that; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	matter in a quote	present · do-support		such new idea	the opportunity = opportunity			tree rules
9	does in a quote	present	you	a little girl or a serpent				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot girl=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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