Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 32
“Well, I’ve tried to say “How doth the little busy bee,” but it all came different!”
Who acts: bee · What happens: try, say, do, come · To what, where: Caterpillar, little busy bee · 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 (bee), 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 | _ | 6 tried | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 tried | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tried | aux:pass |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 doth | punct |
| 10 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 doth | advmod |
| 11 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bee | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bee | amod |
| 14 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bee | amod |
| 15 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 doth | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 doth | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 doth | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 came | advmod |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tried | conj |
| 22 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 came | xcomp |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | present · passive | the Caterpillar = caterpillar | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | do | present | the little busy bee | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | past | bee | different property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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