Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 119

“Whoever lives there,” thought Alice, “it’ll never do to come upon them _this_ size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!”

Who acts: Whoever, Alice, house · What happens: live, think, not do, come, frighten · To what, where: size, sizes, wits · 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 (Whoever, Alice, house), 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 lives	punct
2	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 lives	nsubj
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	parataxis
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lives	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lives	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 lives	punct
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thought	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
12	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 do	advmod
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thought	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 do	advcl
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 come	obl
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 size	det
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 size	punct
22	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 frighten	punct
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	28 frighten	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 why	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 frighten	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 frighten	aux
28	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 size	acl:relcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 frighten	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 wits	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 wits	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wits	nmod:poss
33	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 frighten	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	present	Whoever		there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	Alice				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not do in a quote	future	house				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come in a quote	to-infinitive	house not said here	this size		upon sizes = size	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location
5	frighten in a quote	should	Alice	sizes = size	sizes's wits		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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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