Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 56

“It is a very good height indeed!” said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high).

Who acts: height, good height · What happens: be, say, rear, speak · To what, where: good height, 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 (height, good height), 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 height	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 height	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 height	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 height	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 height	amod
7	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 height	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 height	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 height	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	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rearing	punct
16	rearing	rear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
17	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 rearing	obj
18	upright	upright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rearing	xcomp
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 spoke	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spoke	nsubj
21	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rearing	advcl
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	28 high	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 high	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 high	cop
25	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	28 high	advmod
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 inches	nummod
27	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 high	obl:unmarked
28	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spoke	ccomp
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	28 high	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	height	a good height	indeed property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	a good height		angrily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	rear	gerund	a good height not said here	height	upright property	vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
4	speak speech: other	past	height			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	height		three inches obl:unmarked; exactly, high property	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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