Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 25
“Very true,” said the Duchess: “flamingoes and mustard both bite.
Who acts: Duchess · What happens: 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 (Duchess), 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 | _ | 3 true | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 true | advmod |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Duchess | det |
| 8 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 flamingoes | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 flamingoes | punct |
| 11 | flamingoes | flamingoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mustard | cc |
| 13 | mustard | mustard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flamingoes | conj |
| 14 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 bite | det |
| 15 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flamingoes | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Duchess | 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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