Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 140

“That’s enough about lessons,” the Gryphon interrupted in a very decided tone: “tell her something about the games now.”

Who acts: That, enough · What happens: be, interrupt, tell · To what, where: decided tone, something · 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, enough), 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 enough	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 enough	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 enough	cop
4	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 interrupted	nsubj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 lessons	case
6	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 enough	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 enough	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 enough	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Gryphon	det
10	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 interrupted	nsubj
11	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 tone	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tone	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 decided	advmod
15	decided	decided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tone	amod
16	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 interrupted	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 interrupted	parataxis
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 something	nmod:poss
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 tell	obj
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 games	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 games	det
24	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 something	nmod
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 tell	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That				about lessons; enough property	tree rules
2	interrupt	past	enough		a decided tone			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		something		now	about the games	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent something=Recipient about game=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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