Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 1
“You can’t think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!” said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice’s, and they walked off together.
Who acts: You, I, Duchess, they · What happens: not think, be, see, thing, say, tuck · To what, where: you, arm, Alice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, Duchess, they), 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 | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 glad | advmod |
| 7 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 think | ccomp |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 glad | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 glad | cop |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 glad | xcomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 see | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 thing | nsubj |
| 16 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thing | amod |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thing | amod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | parataxis |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Duchess | det |
| 23 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tucked | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 tucked | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tucked | nsubj |
| 27 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | conj |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 arm | nmod:poss |
| 29 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tucked | obj |
| 30 | affectionately | affectionately | ADV | _ | 27 tucked | advmod |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 Alice | case |
| 32 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 tucked | obl |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 Alice | case |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 walked | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 walked | cc |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 walked | nsubj |
| 37 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | conj |
| 38 | off | off | ADV | _ | 37 walked | advmod |
| 39 | together | together | ADV | _ | 37 walked | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | can | You | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | thing in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the Duchess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | tuck | past | Duchess | Duchess's arm | Alice | affectionately property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme into alice=Destination | ||
| 7 | walk off | past | they | off, together property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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