Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 40

“You are old,” said the youth, “and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak— Pray, how did you manage to do it?”

Who acts: You, old, jaws · What happens: be, say, finish, manage, do · To what, where: youth, goose · 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, old, jaws), 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	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 old	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 youth	det
9	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 weak	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 weak	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 weak	cc
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 jaws	nmod:poss
14	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 weak	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 weak	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 weak	advmod
17	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 youth	conj
18	For	for	ADP	_	19 anything	case
19	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 weak	obl
20	tougher	tough	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 anything	amod
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 suet	case
22	suet	suet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tougher	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 finished	punct
24	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	26 finished	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 finished	nsubj
26	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 goose	det
28	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 finished	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bones	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 bones	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bones	det
32	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 finished	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 beak	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 beak	det
35	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bones	conj
36	—	-	PUNCT	_	37 Pray	punct
37	Pray	Pray	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 manage	punct
39	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 manage	advmod
40	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 manage	aux
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 manage	nsubj
42	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 Pray	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 do	mark
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 manage	xcomp
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 do	obj
46	?	?	PUNCT	_	37 Pray	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 Pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	You		old property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	old	the youth		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	your jaws		for anything; weak property	tree rules
4	finish in a quote	past	you	the goose	with the bones and the beak	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector goose=Eventuality with bone=Subeventuality
5	manage in a quote	past · do-support	you			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	do in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	youth		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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