Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 8
“I can’t explain _myself_, I’m afraid, sir,” said Alice, “because I’m not myself, you see.”
Who acts: Alice, you · What happens: not explain, be, say, not be, see · To what, where: Alice · 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, you), 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 explain | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 explain | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 explain | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 explain | advmod |
| 5 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 explain | punct |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 5 explain | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 explain | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’m | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ’m | nsubj |
| 11 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 explain | parataxis |
| 12 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ’m | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sir | punct |
| 14 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 explain | vocative |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 explain | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 explain | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 ’m | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 ’m | nsubj |
| 23 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | advcl |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 ’m | advmod |
| 25 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 ’m | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ’m | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 see | nsubj |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not explain speech: assert in a quote | can | Alice | Alice | sir vocative | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | Alice | afraid property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not be in a quote | present | Alice | Alice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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