Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 68
The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it watched the Queen till she was out of sight: then it chuckled.
Who acts: Gryphon, Queen · What happens: sit up, rub, watch, be, chuckle · To what, where: eyes, Queen, sight
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 (Gryphon, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Gryphon | det |
| 2 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rubbed | cc |
| 6 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rubbed | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 watched | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 watched | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 watched | nsubj |
| 12 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Queen | det |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 watched | obj |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 sight | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sight | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sight | cop |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 sight | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sight | case |
| 20 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 watched | xcomp |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 chuckled | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 chuckled | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 chuckled | nsubj |
| 24 | chuckled | chuckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 watched | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit up | past | the Gryphon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rub | past | the Gryphon not said here | Gryphon's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | watch | past | Gryphon | the Queen | then | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | Queen | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | chuckle | past | Gryphon | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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