Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 29
For some minutes it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, and said, “So you think you’re changed, do you?”
Who acts: promising, last, you · What happens: puff away, speak, unfold, take, say, think · To what, where: arms, hookah, mouth, 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 (promising, last, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 minutes | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 minutes | det |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 puffed | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 puffed | nsubj |
| 5 | puffed | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 puffed | advmod |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 speaking | mark |
| 8 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 puffed | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unfolded | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 unfolded | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 unfolded | nsubj:outer |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 last | nsubj |
| 14 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 puffed | parataxis |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arms | nmod:poss |
| 16 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 unfolded | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 unfolded | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hookah | det |
| 20 | hookah | hookah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 mouth | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 mouth | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 took | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 puffed | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 do | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 do | punct |
| 31 | So | so | ADV | _ | 33 think | advmod |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 think | nsubj |
| 33 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 do | advcl |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 changed | nsubj |
| 35 | ’re | 're | ADV | _ | 36 changed | advmod |
| 36 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 think | ccomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 think | punct |
| 38 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 said | ccomp |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 do | iobj |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 38 do | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puff away | past | promising | minute | away property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | promising not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | unfold | past | last | promising's arms | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | past | last not said here | the hookah | promising's mouth | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hookah=Theme out mouth=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | say speech: ask | past | promising not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | present | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | change in a quote | past | you | 're property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | do in a quote | infinitive | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
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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