Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 92
“I’m very sorry you’ve been annoyed,” said Alice, who was beginning to see its meaning.
Who acts: I, you, Alice, sleep · What happens: be, say, begin, see, mean · To what, where: sorry, meaning · 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, you, Alice, sleep), 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 | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’m | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 annoyed | nsubj |
| 7 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 annoyed | cop |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 annoyed | cop |
| 9 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sorry | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 beginning | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beginning | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 beginning | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 beginning | aux |
| 17 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 beginning | xcomp |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 21 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | I | sorry | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sorry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | annoyed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | begin | past · progressive | Alice | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | sleep's meaning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | mean | sleep | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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