Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 113

“Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.”

Who acts: Reeling, Mock Turtle · What happens: begin, reply · 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 (Reeling, 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	_	10 begin	punct
2	Reeling	reeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begin	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Writhing	cc
4	Writhing	writhing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Reeling	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 course	punct
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 course	case
7	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Reeling	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begin	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 begin	mark
10	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 replied	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	10 begin	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begin	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 begin	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Turtle	det
15	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Turtle	compound
16	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 replied	nsubj
17	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 branches	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 branches	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 branches	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 branches	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 branches	det
23	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 branches	amod
24	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 replied	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Arithmetic	case
26	Arithmetic	Arithmetic	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 branches	nmod
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	28 Ambition	punct
28	Ambition	ambition	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 branches	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Distraction	punct
30	Distraction	distraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Ambition	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Uglification	punct
32	Uglification	uglification	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Ambition	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Derision	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 Derision	cc
35	Derision	derision	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Ambition	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 branches	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin in a quote	to-infinitive	Reeling and Writhing and course						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	reply speech: assert	past	the Mock Turtle						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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