Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 16
“’Tis so,” said the Duchess: “and the moral of that is—‘Oh, ’tis love, ’tis love, that makes the world go round!’”
Who acts: Tis, moral, tis love, world · What happens: say, be, make, go round · To what, where: tis love · 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 (Tis, moral, tis love, world), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 3 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 Tis | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Duchess | det |
| 9 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 moral | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 moral | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moral | det |
| 14 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 love | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 moral | nmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 love | cop |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 love | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 love | punct |
| 20 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 24 love | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Oh | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | X | _ | 24 love | punct |
| 23 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 love | compound |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 love | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 love | punct |
| 27 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 love | compound |
| 28 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 love | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 makes | punct |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 makes | nsubj |
| 31 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 love | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | nsubj |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 makes | xcomp |
| 35 | round | round | ADV | _ | 34 go | advmod |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 go | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 makes | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Tis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the moral of that | tis love | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | tis love | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go round in a quote | infinitive | the world | round property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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