Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 30

“I’m afraid I am, sir,” said Alice; “I can’t remember things as I used—and I don’t keep the same size for ten minutes together!”

Who acts: Alice, promising · What happens: be, say, not remember, use, not keep · To what, where: things, same size · 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, promising), 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	_	4 afraid	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	nsubj
3	’m	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 am	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sir	punct
8	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 afraid	vocative
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	conj
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 remember	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 remember	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 remember	nsubj
16	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 remember	aux
17	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 remember	advmod
18	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 afraid	parataxis
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 remember	obj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 used	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 used	nsubj
22	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 remember	ccomp
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	28 keep	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 keep	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 keep	nsubj
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 keep	aux
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 keep	advmod
28	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 remember	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 size	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 size	amod
31	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 keep	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 minutes	case
33	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 minutes	nummod
34	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 keep	obl
35	together	together	ADV	_	28 keep	advmod
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Alice			sir vocative; afraid property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not remember in a quote	can	promising	things			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent thing=Theme clause=Attribute
4	use in a quote	past	promising				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not keep in a quote	present · do-support	promising	the same size	minute	together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=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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