Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 110

“Well, be off, then!” said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into its nest.

Who acts: Pigeon, tone · What happens: say, settle down · To what, where: nest · 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, tone), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	10 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 off	cop
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 Well	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Well	advmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Pigeon	det
12	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 tone	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tone	det
15	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tone	amod
16	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Pigeon	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 settled	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 settled	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 settled	nsubj
20	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 settled	compound:prt
22	again	again	ADV	_	20 settled	advmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 nest	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 nest	nmod:poss
25	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 settled	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Pigeon						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	settle down	past	tone			tone's nest	again		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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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