Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 31
“Can’t remember _what_ things?” said the Caterpillar.
Who acts: Ca, Caterpillar · What happens: not remember, say · 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 (Ca, 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 | _ | 4 remember | punct |
| 2 | Ca | Ca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 remember | advmod |
| 4 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 what | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 remember | ccomp |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 things | punct |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 what | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 remember | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 remember | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Caterpillar | det |
| 13 | Caterpillar | Caterpillar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not remember in a quote | infinitive | Ca | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Caterpillar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «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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