Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 64
They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the sun. (If you don’t know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.)
Who acts: King, you, Gryphon · What happens: come, lie, not know, be, look · To what, where: Gryphon · 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 (King, you, Gryphon), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 Gryphon | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Gryphon | det |
| 7 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lying | punct |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | conj |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 asleep | advmod |
| 11 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lying | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sun. | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sun. | det |
| 14 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asleep | obl |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 16 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 know | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 know | advmod |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lying | parataxis |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 know | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Gryphon | det |
| 23 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 what | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 what | cop |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 look | punct |
| 26 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 picture | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 picture | det |
| 29 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 look | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | King | a Gryphon | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon gryphon=Location | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | King not said here | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not know a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | a Gryphon | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | look | infinitive | you not said here | at the picture | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=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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