Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 19
Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar’s making such _very_ short remarks, and she drew herself up and said, very gravely, “I think, you ought to tell me who _you_ are, first.”
Who acts: Alice, you · What happens: feel, irritate, make, draw up, say, think · To what, where: little, short remarks, Alice, you · 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 (Alice, you), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 irritated | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | irritated | irritate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 10 making | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Caterpillar | det |
| 8 | Caterpillar | Caterpillar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 making | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Caterpillar | case |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 irritated | advcl |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 10 making | xcomp |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 such | punct |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 short | advmod |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 very | punct |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 remarks | amod |
| 16 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 making | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drew | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 drew | nsubj |
| 20 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | parataxis |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 drew | obj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 drew | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 drew | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 gravely | punct |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 gravely | advmod |
| 27 | gravely | gravely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 said | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 think | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 think | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 think | nsubj |
| 31 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 gravely | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 tell | punct |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 tell | nsubj |
| 34 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 tell | aux |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 tell | mark |
| 36 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 felt | conj |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 tell | iobj |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 _ | nsubj |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 tell | punct |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 tell | iobj |
| 41 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 tell | punct |
| 42 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 first | punct |
| 44 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 felt | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Alice | first property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | irritate | participle | Alice not said here | a little | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Alice not said here | short remarks | such property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset remark=Product | |||
| 4 | draw up | past | Alice | Alice | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Alice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Alice | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert in a quote | ought | you | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient you=Topic | ||||
| 8 | be in a quote | present | Alice not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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