Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 134
“I said pig,” replied Alice; “and I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy.”
Who acts: Alice, you · What happens: say, reply, wish, not keep, appear, vanish · To what, where: pig, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 8 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wish | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 keep | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 keep | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 keep | advmod |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wish | ccomp |
| 18 | appearing | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 keep | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 vanishing | cc |
| 20 | vanishing | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 appearing | conj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 suddenly | advmod |
| 22 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 20 vanishing | advmod |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 make | nsubj |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 appearing | advcl |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 make | obj |
| 27 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 giddy | advmod |
| 28 | giddy | giddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 make | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Alice | pig | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Alice | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | Alice | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not keep in a quote | would | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | appear in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | vanish in a quote | gerund | you not said here | suddenly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | make in a quote | present | you | one | giddy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product |
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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