Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 79
So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with large eyes full of tears, but said nothing.
Who acts: pigs, Mock Turtle · What happens: go up, look, say · To what, where: nothing · 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 (pigs, Mock Turtle), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Turtle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Turtle | det |
| 7 | Mock | Mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Turtle | compound |
| 8 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Turtle | acl:relcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 eyes | case |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyes | amod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 looked | obl |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyes | amod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tears | case |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 full | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 said | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | pigs = pig | to the Mock Turtle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the Mock Turtle | at pigs = pig; with large eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | pigs = pig not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
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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