Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 39

“In my youth,” said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, “I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment—one shilling the box— Allow me to sell you a couple?”

Who acts: sage, old · What happens: say, shake, keep, shill, allow, sell · To what, where: youth, grey locks, limbs, box, sage, couple · 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 (sage, old), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 youth	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 youth	nmod:poss
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 youth	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 youth	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sage	det
9	sage	sage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shook	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 shook	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shook	nsubj
13	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 locks	nmod:poss
15	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 locks	amod
16	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shook	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kept	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 kept	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 kept	nsubj
20	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shook	conj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 limbs	det:predet
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 limbs	nmod:poss
23	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 kept	obj
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 supple	advmod
25	supple	supple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 kept	xcomp
26	By	by	ADP	_	28 use	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 use	det
28	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 supple	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 ointment	case
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 ointment	det
31	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 use	nmod
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	33 one	punct
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 ointment	nmod
34	shilling	shill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 one	acl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 box	det
36	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 shilling	obj
37	—	-	PUNCT	_	38 Allow	punct
38	Allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 Allow	iobj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 sell	mark
41	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 Allow	xcomp
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 sell	iobj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 couple	det
44	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sell	obj
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the sage			my youth		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shake	past	old	old's grey locks				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent lock=Patient
3	keep in a quote	past	the sage = sage	my limbs			supple property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limb=Theme
4	shill in a quote	gerund		the box				tree rules
5	allow in a quote	infinitive			the sage = sage			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	sell not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		a couple	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient couple=Theme
7	use in a quote			this ointment one				nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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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