Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 75

They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break.

Who acts: lives, Alice, fun, heart · What happens: not go, see, sit, come, hear, sigh · To what, where: Mock Turtle, little ledge, fun

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 (lives, Alice, fun, heart), 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 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 saw	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Turtle	det
10	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Turtle	compound
11	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 distance	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 distance	det
14	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sitting	punct
16	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 saw	conj
17	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sitting	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lonely	cc
19	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sad	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 ledge	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 ledge	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ledge	amod
23	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sitting	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 rock	case
25	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ledge	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hear	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hear	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 and	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 came	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 hear	advcl
32	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 came	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
34	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 hear	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 hear	aux
36	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 hear	obj
38	sighing	sigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 hear	xcomp
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 break	mark
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 break	mark
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 heart	nmod:poss
42	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 break	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 break	aux
44	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 sighing	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	lives = life			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	lives = life	the Mock Turtle		in the distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turtle=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	lives = life not said here		a little ledge of rock	sad property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ledge=Location
4	come	past	lives = life			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	could	Alice	fun			tree rules
6	sigh	gerund	fun not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	break	would	fun's heart				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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