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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

nsubjadvmodadvmodcasedetoblpunctconjadvmodxcompcasedetoblpunctmarknsubjauxadvmodparataxisccompdetnsubjcoppunctconjcasedetoblpunctpunctrootTheyPRONveryADVsoonADVcameVERBuponADPaDETGryphonPROPN,PUNCTlyingVERBfastADVasleepADJinADPtheDETsun.NOUN(PUNCTIfSCONJyouPRONdoAUXn’tPARTknowVERBwhatPRONaDETGryphonPROPNisAUX,PUNCTlookVERBatADPtheDETpictureNOUN.PUNCT)PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 camensubj
2veryveryADV_3 soonadvmod
3soonsoonADVDegree=Pos4 cameadvmod
4camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5uponuponADP_7 Gryphoncase
6aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 Gryphondet
7GryphonGryphonPROPNNumber=Sing4 cameobl
8,,PUNCT_9 lyingpunct
9lyinglieVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 cameconj
10fastfastADVDegree=Pos11 asleepadvmod
11asleepasleepADJDegree=Pos9 lyingxcomp
12ininADP_14 sun.case
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 sun.det
14sun.sun.NOUNNumber=Sing11 asleepobl
15((PUNCT_20 knowpunct
16IfifSCONJ_20 knowmark
17youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs20 knownsubj
18dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 knowaux
19n’tnotPARTPolarity=Neg20 knowadvmod
20knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf9 lyingparataxis
21whatwhatPRONPronType=Int20 knowccomp
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 Gryphondet
23GryphonGryphonPROPNNumber=Sing21 whatnsubj
24isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 whatcop
25,,PUNCT_26 lookpunct
26looklookVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin20 knowconj
27atatADP_29 picturecase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 picturedet
29picturepictureNOUNNumber=Sing26 lookobl
30..PUNCT_20 knowpunct
31))PUNCT_4 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastKinga Gryphonsoon propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon gryphon=Location
2liegerundKing not said hereasleep propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3not know a condition, not said to happenpresent · do-supportyouvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4is apresenta Gryphontree rules
5lookinfinitiveyou not said hereat the picturevn 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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