Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 116
I’m never sure what I’m going to be, from one minute to another!
Who acts: I · What happens: not be, be, go
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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11:348): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 sure | advmod |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 going | xcomp |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 what | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 what | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 minute | punct |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 minute | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 minute | nummod |
| 14 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 another | case |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 minute | nmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | I | minute | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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