Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 51
“Oh, I’m not particular as to size,” Alice hastily replied; “only one doesn’t like changing so often, you know.”
Who acts: Alice, one, you · What happens: not be, reply, not change, know · 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, one, you), 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 | _ | 7 particular | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 particular | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 particular | nsubj |
| 5 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 particular | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 particular | advmod |
| 7 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 10 size | case |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 particular | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 particular | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 particular | punct |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 15 replied | advmod |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 particular | parataxis |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 changing | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 changing | punct |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 one | advmod |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 changing | nsubj |
| 20 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 changing | aux |
| 21 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 changing | advmod |
| 22 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 23 changing | mark |
| 23 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 particular | conj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 often | advmod |
| 25 | often | often | ADV | _ | 23 changing | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 know | nsubj |
| 28 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 particular | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 particular | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 particular | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | Alice | as size; particular property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Alice | hastily property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not change in a quote | present · do-support | one | often property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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