Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 21

Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a _very_ unpleasant state of mind, she turned away.

Who acts: Caterpillar, Alice · What happens: be, not think, seem, turn away · To what, where: puzzling question, unpleasant state, _

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 (Caterpillar, Alice), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 question	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 question	cop
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 question	det
4	puzzling	puzzling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 question	amod
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 think	cc
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 Alice	case
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 think	obl
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 think	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 think	advmod
12	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 question	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 reason	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 reason	det
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 reason	amod
16	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 think	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seemed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 seemed	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 seemed	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Caterpillar	det
21	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 seemed	nsubj
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 think	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	27 _	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 _	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 _	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 _	det
27	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seemed	xcomp
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 _	advmod
29	_	_	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 unpleasant	advmod
30	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 state	amod
31	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seemed	xcomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 mind	case
33	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 state	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 turned	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 turned	nsubj
36	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 think	conj
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 turned	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 question	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		another puzzling question	here		tree rules
2	not think speech: other	could				as Alice; of any good reason	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past	the Caterpillar	unpleasant state of mind			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive	the Caterpillar not said here		a _		tree rules
5	turn away	past	Alice			away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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