--- title: “In my youth,” said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, “I kept al… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “In my youth,” said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, “I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment—one shilling the box— Allow me to sell you a couple?” Who acts: sage, old. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/39/) [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/) / 39 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 39 “In my youth,” said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, “I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment—one shilling the box— Allow me to sell you a couple?” **Who acts:** sage, old · **What happens:** say, shake, keep, shill, allow, sell · **To what, where:** youth, grey locks, limbs, box, sage, couple · **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 (sage, old), 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:pg11:6:39 # text = “In my youth,” said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, “I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment—one shilling the box— Allow me to sell you a couple?” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sage sage NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 limbs limb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 supple supple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 26 By by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 ointment ointment NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 — - PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nmod _ _ 34 shilling shill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 — - PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 38 Allow allow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 iobj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 iobj _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the sage | | | my youth | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **shake** | past | old | old's grey locks | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent lock=Patient | | 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | past | the sage *= sage* | my limbs | | | | supple *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limb=Theme | | 4 | **shill** *in a quote* | gerund | | the box | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **allow** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | the sage *= sage* | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **sell** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | | a couple | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient couple=Theme | | 7 | **use** *in a quote* | | | this ointment one | | | | | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/40/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/)