Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 45
“Just about as much right,” said the Duchess, “as pigs have to fly; and the m—”
Who acts: Duchess, pigs · What happens: say, have, fly · 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, pigs), 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 | _ | 6 right | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 about | advmod |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 right | advmod |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 right | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 right | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Duchess | det |
| 11 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 m | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 m | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 15 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 m | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 fly | mark |
| 18 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | xcomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 m | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 m | det |
| 22 | m | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 m | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 m | 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 | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | pigs | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fly in a quote | to-infinitive | pigs not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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