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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 130

“So he did, so he did,” said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both creatures hid their faces in their paws.

Who acts: Tis, Gryphon, creatures · What happens: do, say, sigh, hide · To what, where: faces, paws · 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 (Tis, Gryphon, creatures), 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

punctadvmodnsubjccomppunctadvmodnsubjparataxispunctpunctdetnsubjpunctadvclcasenmod:possoblpunctccdetnsubjconjnmod:possobjcasenmod:possoblpunctroot“PUNCTSoADVhePRONdidVERB,PUNCTsoADVhePRONdidVERB,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETGryphonPROPN,PUNCTsighingVERBinADPhisPRONturnNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJbothDETcreaturesNOUNhidVERBtheirPRONfacesNOUNinADPtheirPRONpawsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_4 didpunct
2SosoADV_4 didadvmod
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 didnsubj
4diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 saidccomp
5,,PUNCT_8 didpunct
6sosoADV_8 didadvmod
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 didnsubj
8diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 didparataxis
9,,PUNCT_8 didpunct
10”"PUNCT_4 didpunct
11saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 Gryphondet
13GryphonGryphonPROPNNumber=Sing11 saidnsubj
14,,PUNCT_15 sighingpunct
15sighingsighVERBVerbForm=Ger11 saidadvcl
16ininADP_18 turncase
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 turnnmod:poss
18turnturnNOUNNumber=Sing15 sighingobl
19;;PUNCT_23 hidpunct
20andandCCONJ_23 hidcc
21bothbothDETPronType=Tot22 creaturesdet
22creaturescreatureNOUNNumber=Plur23 hidnsubj
23hidhideVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 saidconj
24theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 facesnmod:poss
25facesfaceNOUNNumber=Plur23 hidobj
26ininADP_28 pawscase
27theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 pawsnmod:poss
28pawspawNOUNNumber=Plur23 hidobl
29..PUNCT_11 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1do in a quotepastTisvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2do in a quotepastTisvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3say speech: assertpastthe Gryphonvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4sighgerundthe Gryphon not said herein Tis's turnvn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in turn=Theme
5hidepastboth creatures_'s faces_'s pawsvn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent face=Patient in paw=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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