Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 5

Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I _was_ when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”

Who acts: Alice · What happens: reply, know, _, get up, think, change · To what, where: sir, least, Alice · 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 (Alice), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 replied	nsubj
2	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shyly	punct
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 shyly	advmod
5	shyly	shyly	ADV	_	2 replied	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 I	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
11	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	12 know	advmod
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 replied	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sir	punct
14	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 know	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 present	punct
16	just	just	ADV	_	18 present	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 present	case
18	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sir	conj
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 least	case
21	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 know	obl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
23	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 know	parataxis
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 _	nsubj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 _	nsubj
26	_	_	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 know	ccomp
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 _	cop
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 _	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 got	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 got	nsubj
31	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 _	advcl
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 got	compound:prt
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 morning	det
34	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 got	obl:unmarked
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 think	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 think	cc
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 think	nsubj
38	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 know	conj
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 changed	nsubj
40	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 changed	aux
41	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 changed	aux
42	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 changed	aux:pass
43	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 think	ccomp
44	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 times	amod
45	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 changed	obl:unmarked
46	since	since	ADP	_	47 then	case
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 changed	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Alice				shyly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	present	Alice	sir and present			hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sir=Stimulus
3	know in a quote	present	Alice		least			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	_ in a quote	present						tree rules
5	get up in a quote	past	Alice			morning		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	think speech: other in a quote	present	Alice					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	change in a quote	must · perfect · passive		Alice		time		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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