Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 116
The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise.
Who acts: Gryphon · What happens: lift up · To what, where: paws, surprise
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 (Gryphon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Gryphon | det |
| 2 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 lifted | compound:prt |
| 5 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 7 paws | cc:preconj |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 paws | nmod:poss |
| 7 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lifted | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 surprise | case |
| 9 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | the Gryphon | Uglification's paws | surprise | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme in surprise=Destination |
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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