Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 137
“Of course it was,” said the Mock Turtle.
Who acts: holiday, Mock Turtle · What happens: be, 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 (holiday, 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 | _ | 5 was | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 5 was | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | past | holiday | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Mock Turtle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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