Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 56
Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, “Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?”
Who acts: Queen, Alice · What happens: leave off, say, see · To what, where: breath, Alice, Mock Turtle · 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 (Queen, Alice), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 left | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 left | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 breath | punct |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 breath | advmod |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 breath | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 breath | case |
| 10 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Alice | case |
| 15 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seen | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 seen | punct |
| 18 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Turtle | det |
| 22 | Mock | Mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Turtle | compound |
| 23 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | obj |
| 24 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 20 seen | advmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave off | past | the Queen | breath | then | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out breath=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to alice=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present · perfect | Alice | the Mock Turtle | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turtle=Stimulus |
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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