Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 123

“Well, there was Mystery,” the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, “—Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling—the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: _he_ taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.”

Who acts: Mock Turtle, Drawling master, old conger eel, course · What happens: be, reply, count off, drawl, use, come · To what, where: Mystery, subjects, old conger eel, Drawling, us, Fainting · 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 (Mock Turtle, Drawling master, old conger eel, course), 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	_	6 Mystery	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 was	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Mystery	cop
6	Mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replied	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Mystery	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Mystery	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Turtle	det
10	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Turtle	compound
11	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 replied	nsubj
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 counting	punct
14	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 replied	advcl
15	off	off	ADP	_	17 subjects	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 subjects	det
17	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 counting	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 flappers	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 flappers	nmod:poss
20	flappers	flapper	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 subjects	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Mystery	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Mystery	punct
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 Mystery	punct
24	Mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flappers	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ancient	punct
26	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Mystery	amod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 modern	cc
28	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ancient	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Seaography	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 Seaography	case
31	Seaography	seaography	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ancient	conj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 Drawling	punct
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 Drawling	advmod
34	Drawling	drawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 replied	advcl
35	—	-	PUNCT	_	45 eel	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 master	det
37	Drawling	drawling	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 master	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Drawling	punct
39	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 eel	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 eel	cop
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 eel	det
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 eel	amod
43	conger	conger	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 eel	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 conger	punct
45	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Drawling	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 used	punct
47	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 used	nsubj
48	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 eel	acl:relcl
49	to	to	PART	_	50 come	mark
50	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 used	xcomp
51	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	50 come	advmod
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 week	det
53	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 once	obl:unmarked
54	:	:	PUNCT	_	58 taught	punct
55	_	_	PUNCT	_	58 taught	punct
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 taught	nsubj
57	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 taught	nsubj
58	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 replied	conj
59	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 taught	obj
60	Drawling	Drawling	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 taught	obj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 Stretching	punct
62	Stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 taught	advcl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 Fainting	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 Fainting	cc
65	Fainting	Fainting	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 Stretching	obl
66	in	in	ADP	_	67 Coils	case
67	Coils	coil	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 Stretching	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
69	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		Mystery					tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	the Mock Turtle						vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	count off	gerund	the Mock Turtle not said here	the subjects on course's flappers					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	drawl speech: other in a quote	gerund	the Mock Turtle not said here				then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	past	the Drawling master	a old conger eel					tree rules
6	use in a quote	past	a old conger eel						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	come in a quote	to-infinitive	a old conger eel not said here					once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	teach speech: other in a quote	past	course	Drawling	us				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient drawling=Topic
9	stretch in a quote	gerund	course not said here	Fainting		Coils			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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