Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 44

Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?

Who acts: you, I · What happens: think, listen · 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, I), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 listen	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 listen	aux
6	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 think	ccomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listen	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 stuff	case
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stuff	amod
11	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listen	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	you						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	listen	can	I				day	to such stuff	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to stuff=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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