Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 28
“Right, as usual,” said the Duchess: “what a clear way you have of putting things!”
Who acts: Duchess, you, clear way · What happens: say, have, put · To what, where: clear way, things · 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, you, clear 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 usual | punct |
| 2 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 5 usual | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 usual | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 usual | case |
| 5 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 usual | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 usual | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Duchess | det |
| 10 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 13 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 16 way | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 way | acl:relcl |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 putting | mark |
| 20 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 way | acl |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 putting | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the Duchess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | what clear way not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put in a quote | gerund | what clear way not said here | things | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal |
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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