Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 78

And oh, my poor hands, how is it I can’t see you?”

Who acts: _, I · What happens: be, not see · To what, where: you

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 (_, I), 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	_	6 hands	cc
2	oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 hands	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 oh	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hands	amod
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 see	advmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 how	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 how	nsubj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 see	advmod
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hands	parataxis
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	_					how property	tree rules
2	not see	can	I	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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