--- title: “You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose That your e… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose— What made you so awfully clever?” Who acts: You, old, one, eye. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a C --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/42/) [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/) / 42 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 42 “You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose— What made you so awfully clever?” **Who acts:** You, old, one, eye · **What happens:** be, say, suppose, balance, make · **To what, where:** youth, That, eel, end, 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 (You, old, one, eye), 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:pg11:6:42 # text = “You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose— What made you so awfully clever?” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 nsubj _ 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 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 suppose suppose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 16 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 obj _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 as as ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 ccomp _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 Yet yet CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 balanced balance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 — - PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 37 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 38 nsubj _ _ 38 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 41 awfully awfully ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ? ? PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | old | the youth | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **suppose** *in a quote* | would | one | That | | | | hardly *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | your eye | | | | | steady *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **balance** *in a quote* | past | you | a eel | | | on the end of your nose | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eel=Theme on end=Location | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | past | | you | | | | clever *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/43/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/)