Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 15

“The game’s going on rather better now,” she said, by way of keeping up the conversation a little.

Who acts: game, way · What happens: go, say, keep up · To what, where: better, conversation · 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 (game, way), 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 going	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ’s	nsubj
4	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 better	case
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 better	advmod
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 going	obl
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 going	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 way	punct
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 way	case
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 keeping	mark
18	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 way	acl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 keeping	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 conversation	det
21	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keeping	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 keeping	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive			better	now	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on good=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	game				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep up	gerund	way not said here	the conversation			tree rules

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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