Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 55

“Well, I should like to be a _little_ larger, sir, if you wouldn’t mind,” said Alice: “three inches is such a wretched height to be.”

Who acts: Alice, you, three inches · What happens: like, be, not mind, say · To what, where: _ little larger sir, wretched height · 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, you, three inches), 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	_	6 like	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 like	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	15 sir	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 sir	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sir	det
10	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sir	amod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sir	amod
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 sir	punct
13	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 sir	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sir	punct
15	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mind	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 mind	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 mind	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 mind	aux
20	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 mind	advmod
21	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 like	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 height	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 height	punct
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 inches	nummod
29	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 height	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 height	cop
31	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	34 height	det:predet
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 height	det
33	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 height	amod
34	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	ccomp
35	to	to	PART	_	36 be	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 height	acl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 height	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 height	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like in a quote	should	Alice		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	a _ little larger sir	tree rules
3	not mind a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	you		vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	Alice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is a in a quote	present	three inches	such wretched height	tree rules

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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