Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 58
And she thought of herself, “I wish the creatures wouldn’t be so easily offended!”
Who acts: Alice · What happens: think, wish, not offend · To what, where: creatures · 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 thought | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 herself | case |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 creatures | det |
| 11 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 offended | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 offended | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 offended | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 offended | aux:pass |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 easily | advmod |
| 16 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 17 offended | advmod |
| 17 | offended | offend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wish | ccomp |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 offended | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Alice | of Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | Alice | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not offend in a quote | would · passive | the creatures | easily property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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