Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 87

“I’ve tried the roots of trees, and I’ve tried banks, and I’ve tried hedges,” the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; “but those serpents!

Who acts: Alice, Pigeon, I · What happens: have, try, go on, attend · To what, where: roots, tried banks, tried hedges, pigeon

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, Pigeon, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ’ve	nsubj
3	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	parataxis
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roots	det
6	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tried	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 trees	case
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 roots	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ’ve	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ’ve	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ’ve	nsubj
12	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	parataxis
13	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 banks	amod
14	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ’ve	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ’ve	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ’ve	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 ’ve	nsubj
18	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ’ve	conj
19	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 hedges	amod
20	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ’ve	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hedges	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 hedges	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Pigeon	det
24	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hedges	acl:relcl
26	on	on	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 attending	punct
28	without	without	SCONJ	_	29 attending	mark
29	attending	attend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 ’ve	advcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 attending	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 serpents	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 serpents	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 serpents	cc
35	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	36 serpents	det
36	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tried	obl
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Alice				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	try in a quote	past		the roots of trees		that serpents obl	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Eventuality
3	have in a quote	present	Alice	tried banks			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Patient
4	try in a quote	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	have in a quote	present	Alice	tried hedges			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedge=Patient
6	try in a quote	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	go on	past	the Pigeon	tried hedges not said here			tree rules
8	attend	gerund	I not said here		pigeon		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to she=Theme

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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