Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 43

“I have answered three questions, and that is enough,” Said his father; “don’t give yourself airs!

Who acts: father, that · What happens: answer, be, say, not give · To what, where: three questions, airs, yourself · 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 (father, that), 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 answered	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 answered	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	aux
4	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 Said	ccomp
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 questions	nummod
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 answered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 enough	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 enough	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 enough	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 enough	cop
11	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 answered	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 enough	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct
14	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Said	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
20	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 give	advmod
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 Said	conj
22	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 give	iobj
23	airs	air	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 give	obj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect	old's father = father	three questions			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
2	is in a quote	present	that			enough property	tree rules
3	say speech: express	past	old's father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not give in a quote	infinitive · do-support	old's father not said here	airs	yourself		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient air=Theme

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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