Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 89
Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use in saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished.
Who acts: Alice, use, Pigeon · What happens: be, think, say, finish · To what, where: anything · 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, use, Pigeon), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 puzzled | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 puzzled | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 puzzled | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 puzzled | cc |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 puzzled | advmod |
| 6 | puzzled | puzzled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 puzzled | conj |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 use | det |
| 14 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 saying | mark |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 use | acl |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 saying | obj |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 finished | advmod |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 finished | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Pigeon | det |
| 21 | Pigeon | Pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 finished | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 finished | aux |
| 23 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 saying | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 puzzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Alice | puzzled property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | no use | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | no use not said here | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 5 | finish | past · perfect | the Pigeon | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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