Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 34
“Repeat, ‘_You are old, Father William_,’” said the Caterpillar.
Who acts: You, Caterpillar · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Repeat · 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 (You, 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 | _ | 2 Repeat | punct |
| 2 | Repeat | repeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Repeat | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Repeat | punct |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Repeat | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 old | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 old | cop |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Repeat | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 William | punct |
| 10 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 William | compound |
| 11 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Repeat | appos |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 William | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Repeat | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Repeat | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Repeat | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Caterpillar | det |
| 18 | Caterpillar | Caterpillar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | Repeat not said here | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Caterpillar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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