Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 36

“You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head— Do you think, at your age, it is right?”

Who acts: You, young man, hair · What happens: be, say, become, stand, think · To what, where: head, age · 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, young man, hair), 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 old	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Father	punct
6	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 old	vocative
7	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Father	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 become	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 become	punct
16	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 become	cc
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hair	nmod:poss
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 become	nsubj
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 become	aux
20	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 white	advmod
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 become	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 stand	punct
24	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 stand	cc
25	yet	yet	ADV	_	28 stand	advmod
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 stand	nsubj
27	incessantly	incessantly	ADV	_	28 stand	advmod
28	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 head	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stand	obl
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	35 think	punct
33	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 think	aux
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 think	nsubj
35	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 stand	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 age	punct
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 age	case
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 age	nmod:poss
39	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 think	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 right	punct
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 right	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 right	cop
43	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 think	parataxis
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	35 think	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	You			Father vocative; old property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	the young man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	become in a quote	present · perfect	your hair			white property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	stand in a quote	present	you	your head	yet	incessantly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location
5	think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	you		at your age		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	hair			right property	tree rules

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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