Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 107

“Ah! then yours wasn’t a really good school,” said the Mock Turtle in a tone of great relief.

Who acts: yours, Mock Turtle · What happens: not be, say, intonate · To what, where: good school, tone, great relief · 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 (yours, Mock Turtle), 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	_	11 school	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	11 school	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 school	advmod
5	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 school	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 school	cop
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 school	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 school	det
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 good	advmod
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 school	amod
11	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 school	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 school	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Turtle	det
16	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Turtle	compound
17	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 tone	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tone	det
20	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 relief	case
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 relief	amod
23	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tone	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	past	yours	a good school		then	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	the Mock Turtle		a tone of great relief		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner
3	intonate			great relief			nom tone «communication 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.

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