Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 19

It means much the same thing,” said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, “and the moral of _that_ is—‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.’”

Who acts: world, Duchess, sounds · What happens: mean, say, dig, add, be, take · To what, where: same thing, sharp little chin, care · 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 (world, Duchess, sounds), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	6 thing	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Duchess	det
11	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 digging	punct
13	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 chin	nmod:poss
15	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 chin	amod
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 chin	amod
17	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 digging	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 shoulder	case
19	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 shoulder	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Alice	case
21	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 digging	obl
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 added	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 added	nsubj
24	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 digging	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 moral	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 moral	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 moral	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 moral	det
29	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 added	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 _	case
31	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 moral	nmod
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 _	nsubj
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 moral	punct
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 Take	cop
35	—	-	PUNCT	_	37 Take	punct
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 Take	punct
37	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
38	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Take	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 sense	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sense	det
41	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Take	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 take	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 take	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sounds	det
45	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 take	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 take	aux
47	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	parataxis
48	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 take	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 themselves	case
50	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	47 take	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 take	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	47 take	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	world	the same thing		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Duchess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	dig in a quote	gerund	the Duchess not said here	Duchess's sharp little chin	into Alice's shoulder	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent chin=Instrument into shoulder=Patient
4	add speech: assert in a quote	past	Duchess			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is	present			of the sense; take property	tree rules
6	take	future	the sounds	care	of sounds = sound	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of themselves=Initial_Location

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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