Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 69

“What fun!” said the Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice.

Who acts: Gryphon · What happens: say · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 fun	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 fun	det
3	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 fun	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 fun	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Gryphon	det
8	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 half	punct
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 Gryphon	appos
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 itself	case
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	10 half	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 half	punct
14	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 Gryphon	appos
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Alice	case
16	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 half	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Gryphon						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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