Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 128
He was an old crab, _he_ was.”
Who acts: Tis · What happens: be · To what, where: old crab
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 (Tis), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 crab | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crab | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crab | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 crab | amod |
| 5 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 crab | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 he | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 was | nsubj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 he | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crab | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crab | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 crab | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Tis | a old crab | 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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