Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 95

“But I’m _not_ a serpent, I tell you!” said Alice.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: be, tell, say · To what, where: serpent, you · 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), 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	_	16 said	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 ’m	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ’m	nsubj
4	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	advcl
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 ’m	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 serpent	advmod
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 serpent	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 serpent	det
9	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ’m	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ’m	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	Alice	a serpent		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Alice		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	say speech: express	past	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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