Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 66
“Of the mushroom,” said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight.
Who acts: Caterpillar, Alice, mushroom · What happens: say, ask, be · To what, where: mushroom, sight · 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, Alice, mushroom), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 mushroom | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mushroom | det |
| 4 | mushroom | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mushroom | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mushroom | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Caterpillar | det |
| 9 | Caterpillar | Caterpillar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 asked | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 asked | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 asked | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 asked | aux |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | obj |
| 18 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 16 asked | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 sight | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sight | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 moment | case |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 moment | det |
| 23 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sight | obl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sight | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sight | cop |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 sight | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 sight | case |
| 28 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Caterpillar | of the mushroom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Alice | mushroom | aloud property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is | past | mushroom | sight | moment | 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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