Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 76
“What _can_ all that green stuff be?” said Alice.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: _, be, say · To what, where: green stuff · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 _ | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 _ | obj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 _ | punct |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 _ | aux |
| 5 | _ | _ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 stuff | det:predet |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 stuff | det |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stuff | amod |
| 9 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 _ | obj |
| 10 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 _ | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 _ | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 _ | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ in a quote | can | all green stuff | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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