Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 121
“Well, then,” the Gryphon went on, “if you don’t know what to uglify is, you _are_ a simpleton.”
Who acts: Gryphon, you · What happens: go on, not know, be, uglify · To what, where: simpleton · 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 (Gryphon, you), 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 | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 went | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Gryphon | det |
| 8 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 simpleton | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 simpleton | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 simpleton | advcl |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 know | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 uglify | mark |
| 20 | uglify | uglify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 what | acl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | cop |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 simpleton | nsubj |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 you | punct |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 simpleton | cop |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 simpleton | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 simpleton | det |
| 28 | simpleton | simpleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 simpleton | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 simpleton | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the Gryphon | then | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a simpleton | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | uglify in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | you | a simpleton | tree rules |
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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