Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 48
“It is wrong from beginning to end,” said the Caterpillar decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes.
Who acts: eye, Caterpillar, silence · What happens: be, begin, say · 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 (eye, Caterpillar, silence), 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 wrong | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wrong | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | cop |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 6 beginning | mark |
| 6 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 wrong | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beginning | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrong | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrong | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Caterpillar | det |
| 13 | Caterpillar | Caterpillar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | decidedly | decidedly | ADV | _ | 13 Caterpillar | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 was | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 was | cc |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 minutes | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 minutes | det |
| 22 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 was | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | eye | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin in a quote | gerund | eye not said here | to end | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Caterpillar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | be | past | silence | there | minute | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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