Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 57

“But I’m not used to it!” pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone.

Who acts: poor Alice · What happens: not use, plead · To what, where: life, piteous tone · 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 (poor 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 pleaded	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 used	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 used	nsubj
4	’m	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 used	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 used	advmod
6	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 pleaded	parataxis
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 used	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct
11	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Alice	amod
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 pleaded	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 tone	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tone	det
16	piteous	piteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tone	amod
17	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pleaded	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 pleaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use in a quote	present · passive	poor Alice = alice		life				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	plead speech: request	past	poor Alice			a piteous tone			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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