Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 42

“You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose— What made you so awfully clever?”

Who acts: You, old, one, eye · What happens: be, say, suppose, balance, make · To what, where: youth, That, eel, end, you · 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, one, eye), 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	_	15 suppose	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 suppose	punct
12	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 suppose	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 suppose	aux
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 suppose	advmod
15	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
16	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 suppose	obj
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eye	nmod:poss
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 steady	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 steady	cop
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 steady	advmod
21	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 suppose	ccomp
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 ever	case
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 steady	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 balanced	punct
25	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	27 balanced	cc
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 balanced	nsubj
27	balanced	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 eel	det
29	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 balanced	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 end	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 end	det
32	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 balanced	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 nose	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 nose	nmod:poss
35	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 end	nmod
36	—	-	PUNCT	_	38 made	punct
37	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 made	nsubj
38	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 made	obj
40	so	so	ADV	_	42 clever	advmod
41	awfully	awfully	ADV	_	42 clever	advmod
42	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 made	xcomp
43	?	?	PUNCT	_	42 clever	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	38 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	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	suppose in a quote	would	one	That		hardly property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute
4	is in a quote	past	your eye			steady property	tree rules
5	balance in a quote	past	you	a eel	on the end of your nose		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eel=Theme on end=Location
6	make in a quote	past		you		clever property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/42/