Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 117

Now _I_ growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry.

Who acts: I · What happens: growl, be, wag · To what, where: tail

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 growl	advmod
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 growl	nsubj
4	_	_	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 growl	aux
5	growl	growl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 ’m	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 ’m	nsubj
8	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 growl	advcl
9	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ’m	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wag	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wag	cc
12	wag	wag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 growl	conj
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tail	nmod:poss
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wag	obj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 ’m	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 ’m	nsubj
17	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wag	advcl
18	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ’m	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 growl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	growl		I		now		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	present	I			pleased property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wag	infinitive	I not said here	my tail			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
4	be	present	I			angry property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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