Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 109
“It matters a good deal to _me_,” said Alice hastily; “but I’m not looking for eggs, as it happens; and if I was, I shouldn’t want _yours_: I don’t like them raw.”
Who acts: It, Alice · What happens: matter, _, say, not look, happen, be · To what, where: good deal, Alice, yours, 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 (It, Alice), 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 | _ | 3 matters | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 matters | nsubj |
| 3 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 deal | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deal | amod |
| 6 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 matters | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 _ | mark |
| 8 | _ | _ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 deal | acl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 _ | obj |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 _ | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 matters | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 matters | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 looking | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 looking | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 looking | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 looking | nsubj |
| 20 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 looking | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 looking | advmod |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 eggs | case |
| 24 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 looking | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 happens | punct |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 happens | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 happens | nsubj |
| 28 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 looking | advcl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 want | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 want | cc |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 was | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 was | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 want | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 was | punct |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 want | nsubj |
| 36 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 want | aux |
| 37 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 want | advmod |
| 38 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 38 want | punct |
| 40 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 want | obj |
| 41 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 38 want | punct |
| 42 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 46 like | punct |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 like | nsubj |
| 44 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 like | aux |
| 45 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 like | advmod |
| 46 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 47 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 like | obj |
| 48 | raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 like | xcomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 46 like | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter in a quote | present | It | a good deal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | _ in a quote | to-infinitive | Alice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | hastily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not look in a quote | present · progressive | Alice | for eggs | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for egg=Theme | ||||
| 5 | happen in a quote | present | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | be a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | Alice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not want in a quote | should | Alice | yours | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot your=Theme | ||||
| 8 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | Alice | eggs = egg | raw property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot they=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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