Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 22

“Come back!” the Caterpillar called after her.

Who acts: Caterpillar · What happens: come back, call · 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 (Caterpillar), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 called	parataxis
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Caterpillar	det
7	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	nsubj
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back in a quote	infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call speech: express	past	the Caterpillar				after Alice		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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