Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 85

“Serpent, I say again!” repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, “I’ve tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!”

Who acts: I, Serpent, nothing · What happens: say, repeat, subdue, add, try, seem · To what, where: Serpent, Pigeon, subdued tone, I, hands · 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 (I, Serpent, nothing), 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	_	2 Serpent	punct
2	Serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 repeated	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Serpent	acl:relcl
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Serpent	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Serpent	punct
9	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Pigeon	det
11	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 repeated	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tone	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 tone	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 tone	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tone	det
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 subdued	advmod
17	subdued	subdue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 tone	amod
18	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 repeated	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 added	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 added	cc
21	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 repeated	parataxis
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 kind	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 kind	det
24	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 added	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 sob	case
26	sob	sob	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kind	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tried	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 tried	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 tried	nsubj
30	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 tried	aux:pass
31	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 added	conj
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 way	det
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tried	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 seems	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 seems	cc
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	37 seems	nsubj
37	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 repeated	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	39 suit	mark
39	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 seems	xcomp
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 suit	obj
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 seems	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	I	Serpent not said here		again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent serpent=Topic
2	repeat	past	Serpent	the Pigeon	a subdued tone			tree rules
3	subdue	participle						vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	add speech: express	participle					with a kind of sob	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with kind=Co-Patient
5	try in a quote	present · passive		I				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer way=Result
6	seem in a quote	present	nothing					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	suit in a quote	to-infinitive	nothing not said here	hands = hand				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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