Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 127

“Hadn’t time,” said the Gryphon: “I went to the Classics master, though.

Who acts: Gryphon · What happens: have, say, go · To what, where: Classics master · 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), 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	_	2 Had	punct
2	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 time	advmod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Had	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Had	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Gryphon	det
9	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 master	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 master	det
16	Classics	classic	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 master	compound
17	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 though	punct
19	though	though	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Gryphon				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	past	the Gryphon = gryphon	the Classics master		though property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to master=Initial_Location

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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