Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 129

“I never went to him,” the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: “he taught Laughing and Grief, they used to say.”

Who acts: Mock Turtle, Tis, _ · What happens: not go, say, teach, laugh, use · To what, where: Tis · 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, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 went	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 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 sigh	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sigh	det
15	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 taught	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 taught	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 taught	nsubj
19	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
20	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 taught	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Grief	cc
22	Grief	Grief	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Laughing	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 used	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 used	nsubj
25	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 taught	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 say	mark
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 used	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not go in a quote	past	the Mock Turtle = turtle	Tis		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the Mock Turtle		with a sigh	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	teach speech: other in a quote	past	Tis			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	laugh in a quote	gerund	Tis not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	use in a quote	past	_			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	_ not said here			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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