Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 59

“You’ll get used to it in time,” said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.

Who acts: Caterpillar, tone · What happens: use, say, put, begin, smoke · To what, where: You, tone, hookah, mouth · 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 (Caterpillar, tone), 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	_	5 used	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 used	nsubj:pass
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 used	aux
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 used	aux:pass
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 used	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 time	case
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Caterpillar	det
14	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 put	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
18	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hookah	det
20	hookah	hookah	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 mouth	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mouth	nmod:poss
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 put	conj
26	smoking	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 began	xcomp
27	again	again	ADV	_	26 smoking	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	use in a quote	future · passive		You	tone		time	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Caterpillar					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	put	past	tone	the hookah		tone's mouth		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hookah=Goal
4	begin	past	tone not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	smoke	gerund	tone not said here				again	vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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