Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 28

Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, and perhaps after all it might tell her something worth hearing.

Who acts: Alice, all · What happens: think, wait, have, do, tell · To what, where: nothing, something · 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, all), 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wait	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wait	aux
5	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	7 wait	cc
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 as	fixed
7	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wait	conj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 had	obj
13	else	else	ADV	_	12 nothing	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 nothing	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
18	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	20 all	advmod
19	after	after	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 tell	nsubj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	conj
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 something	nmod:poss
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 tell	obj
26	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hearing	amod
27	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 something	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Alice		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wait	might	Alice		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	Alice	nothing	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	nothing not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	might	all	something	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Recipient

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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