Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 132
“Ten hours the first day,” said the Mock Turtle: “nine the next, and so on.”
Who acts: Mock Turtle · What happens: say · 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 | _ | 3 hours | punct |
| 2 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hours | nummod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hours | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hours | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Turtle | det |
| 11 | Mock | Mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Turtle | compound |
| 12 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 nine | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 nine | punct |
| 15 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 next | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nine | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 on | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 on | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 on | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Mock Turtle | 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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