Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 90
“As if it wasn’t trouble enough hatching the eggs,” said the Pigeon; “but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and day!
Who acts: use, trouble, Pigeon · What happens: not be, hatch, say, be · To what, where: eggs, look out · 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 (use, trouble, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADP | _ | 7 trouble | case |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 trouble | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 trouble | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 trouble | cop |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 trouble | advmod |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 trouble | advmod |
| 9 | hatching | hatch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 trouble | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eggs | det |
| 11 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hatching | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 trouble | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 trouble | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Pigeon | det |
| 16 | Pigeon | Pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 out | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 out | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 out | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 out | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 out | cop |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 out | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 out | det |
| 25 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 out | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 look | punct |
| 27 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 night | compound |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 serpents | case |
| 29 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 out | nmod |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 day | cc |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 night | conj |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | use | as trouble; enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hatch in a quote | gerund | trouble not said here | the eggs | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Product | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the Pigeon | night | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | must | the Pigeon = pigeon | the look out | for serpents | 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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