Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 125
“Well, I can’t show it you myself,” the Mock Turtle said: “I’m too stiff.
Who acts: Mock Turtle · What happens: not show, say, be · To what, where: master, you · 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), 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 | _ | 7 show | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 show | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 show | nsubj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 show | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 show | advmod |
| 7 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 show | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 show | iobj |
| 10 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 7 show | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 show | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 show | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Turtle | det |
| 14 | Mock | Mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Turtle | compound |
| 15 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 ’m | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 ’m | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 ’m | nsubj |
| 20 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 stiff | advmod |
| 22 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ’m | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not show in a quote | can | the Mock Turtle = turtle | master | you | myself obl:unmarked | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Topic | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Mock Turtle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | the Mock Turtle = turtle | stiff property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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