Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 80
“This here young lady,” said the Gryphon, “she wants for to know your history, she do.”
Who acts: young lady, lady, Gryphon · What happens: say, want, know, do · To what, where: Gryphon, 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 (young lady, lady, 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 lady | det |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lady | advmod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | 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 Gryphon | det |
| 10 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wants | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wants | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wants | nsubj |
| 14 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Gryphon | acl:relcl |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wants | xcomp |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 history | nmod:poss |
| 19 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | this young lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | lady | the Gryphon not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Gryphon not said here | your history | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer history=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | lady | vn act-114-1 «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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