Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 14

“Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,” said Alice; “all I know is, it would feel very queer to _me_.”

Who acts: feelings, Alice, Caterpillar, bit · What happens: be, say, know, _ · To what, where: Caterpillar · 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 (feelings, Alice, Caterpillar, bit), 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	_	9 different	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 different	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	9 different	advmod
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feelings	nmod:poss
6	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 different	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 different	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 different	cop
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 different	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 different	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 different	conj
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 feel	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 all	punct
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 feel	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
18	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 all	acl:relcl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 feel	cop
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 is	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 feel	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 feel	aux
23	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 different	parataxis
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 queer	advmod
25	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feel	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 _	mark
27	_	_	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 queer	xcomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 _	obj
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 feel	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 different	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 different	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	may	your feelings		different, perhaps property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	know in a quote	present	the Caterpillar = caterpillar			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	would · present	bit		all obl; feel, queer property	tree rules
5	_ in a quote	to-infinitive	bit not said here	the Caterpillar = caterpillar		tree rules

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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