Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 124

“What was _that_ like?” said Alice.

Who acts: _, Alice · What happens: be, _, say · To what, where: _ · 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 (_, Alice), 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 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 _	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 _	cop
4	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 _	nsubj
6	_	_	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 _	acl:relcl
7	like	like	ADP	_	6 _	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 _	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 _	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		_	tree rules
2	_ in a quote	present	_		tree rules
3	say speech: ask	past	Alice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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