Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 65
“Up, lazy thing!” said the Queen, “and take this young lady to see the Mock Turtle, and to hear his history.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: say, take, see, hear · To what, where: young lady, Mock Turtle, history · 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), 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 | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 2 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 4 lazy | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Up | punct |
| 4 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 take | cc |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 lady | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lady | amod |
| 17 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 take | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Turtle | det |
| 21 | Mock | Mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Turtle | compound |
| 22 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hear | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hear | cc |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 hear | mark |
| 26 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 take | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 history | nmod:poss |
| 28 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hear | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | this young lady | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lady=Destination | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | the Mock Turtle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turtle=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | to-infinitive | voice's history | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer history=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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