Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 26

And the moral of that is—‘Birds of a feather flock together.’”

Who acts: moral, Birds · What happens: be, flock together · To what, where: Birds

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 (moral, Birds), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 Birds	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moral	det
3	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Birds	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moral	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Birds	cop
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 Birds	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 Birds	punct
9	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 feather	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 feather	det
12	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flock	obl
13	flock	flock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Birds	acl:relcl
14	together	together	ADV	_	13 flock	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 flock	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 flock	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 flock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the moral of that	Birds					tree rules
2	flock together	infinitive	Birds not said here					of a feather; together property	vn herd-47.5.2 «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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