--- title: Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar’s making such _very… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar’s making such _very_ short remarks, and she drew herself up and said, very gravely, “I think, you ought to tell me who _you_ are, first.” Who acts: Alice, you. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/) / [Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/) / 19 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 19 Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar’s making such \_very\_ short remarks, and she drew herself up and said, very gravely, “I think, you ought to tell me who \_you\_ are, first.” **Who acts:** Alice, you · **What happens:** feel, irritate, make, draw up, say, think · **To what, where:** little, short remarks, Alice, 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, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11:6:19 # text = Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar’s making such _very_ short remarks, and she drew herself up and said, very gravely, “I think, you ought to tell me who _you_ are, first.” 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 irritated irritate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 xcomp _ _ 6 at at SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Caterpillar Caterpillar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’s 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 11 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 10 xcomp _ _ 12 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 13 punct _ _ 15 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 remarks remark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 gravely gravely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 “ " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 iobj _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 36 punct _ _ 42 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | Alice | | | | | first *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **irritate** | participle | Alice *not said here* | a little | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **make** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | short remarks | | | | such *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset remark=Product | | 4 | **draw up** | past | Alice | Alice | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | ought | you | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient you=Topic | | 8 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/20/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. 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