Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 99
“I can see you’re trying to invent something!”
Who acts: Alice, you · What happens: see, be, try, invent · To what, where: something · 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, you), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 ’re | nsubj |
| 6 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | ccomp |
| 7 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 ’re | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 invent | mark |
| 9 | invent | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 trying | xcomp |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 invent | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | can | Alice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | try in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | invent not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | something | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Result |
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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