Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 4
Soup does very well without—Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered.
Who acts: Soup, pepper, people, vinegar, camomile, such things · What happens: do, be, make, temper, go on, find out · To what, where: pepper, people, new kind, children · 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 (Soup, pepper, people, vinegar), 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 | Soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 well | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 does | advmod |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 2 does | obl |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 pepper | punct |
| 7 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 11 pepper | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pepper | nsubj |
| 9 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pepper | cop |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 pepper | advmod |
| 11 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 makes | nsubj |
| 13 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pepper | acl:relcl |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 makes | obj |
| 15 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tempered | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 hot | punct |
| 17 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 makes | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tempered | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 makes | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 makes | parataxis |
| 22 | on | on | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pleased | punct |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 much | advmod |
| 25 | much | much | ADV | _ | 26 pleased | advmod |
| 26 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 went | parataxis |
| 27 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 29 found | mark |
| 28 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 found | aux |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 pleased | advcl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 found | compound:prt |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 kind | det |
| 32 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 kind | amod |
| 33 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 found | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 rule | case |
| 35 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kind | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 vinegar | punct |
| 37 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 vinegar | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 vinegar | cc |
| 39 | vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kind | nmod |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 makes | nsubj |
| 41 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 vinegar | acl:relcl |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 makes | obj |
| 43 | sour | sour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 makes | xcomp |
| 44 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 camomile | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 camomile | cc |
| 46 | camomile | camomile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 makes | parataxis |
| 47 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 makes | nsubj |
| 48 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 camomile | acl:relcl |
| 49 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 makes | obj |
| 50 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 makes | xcomp |
| 51 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 57 sugar | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 sugar | cc |
| 53 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 57 sugar | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 sugar | cc |
| 55 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 sugar | compound |
| 56 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 55 barley | punct |
| 57 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 makes | parataxis |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 things | cc |
| 59 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 things | amod |
| 60 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 sugar | conj |
| 61 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 62 make | nsubj |
| 62 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 60 things | acl:relcl |
| 63 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 make | obj |
| 64 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 66 tempered | amod |
| 65 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 64 sweet | punct |
| 66 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 62 make | xcomp |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Soup | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Soup | pepper | always, maybe property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | present | pepper | people | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | temper | participle | people not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go on in a quote | past | pepper | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | find out in a quote | gerund · perfect | pepper not said here | a new kind of rule vinegar | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Topic | ||||
| 7 | make | present | vinegar | people | sour property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 8 | make | present | camomile | people | bitter property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 9 | make | present | such things | children | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | temper | participle | children not said here | tree rules |
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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