Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 134
“That’s the reason they’re called lessons,” the Gryphon remarked: “because they lessen from day to day.”
Who acts: That, Reeling, reason, Gryphon · What happens: be, 're, call, remark, lessen · To what, where: reason, lessons · 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 (That, Reeling, reason, 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 | _ | 14 remarked | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 reason | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reason | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reason | det |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 remarked | parataxis |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ’re | nsubj |
| 7 | ’re | 're | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reason | acl:relcl |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 reason | acl |
| 9 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reason | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 reason | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Gryphon | det |
| 13 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 remarked | nsubj |
| 14 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 remarked | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lessen | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 lessen | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lessen | nsubj |
| 19 | lessen | lessen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 remarked | advcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lessen | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lessen | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 remarked | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | the reason | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | 're in a quote | past | Reeling | the reason not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call in a quote | participle | the reason not said here | lessons | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | remark speech: assert | past | the Gryphon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | lessen in a quote | present | Reeling | day | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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