Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 81

“I’ll tell it her,” said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow tone: “sit down, both of you, and don’t speak a word till I’ve finished.”

Who acts: Mock Turtle · What happens: tell, say, sit down, not speak, finish · To what, where: history, lady, deep hollow tone, both, word, Mock Turtle · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	obj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Turtle	det
11	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Turtle	compound
12	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	18 tone	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tone	det
15	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tone	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 deep	punct
17	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tone	amod
18	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 sit	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 sit	punct
21	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 sit	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 both	punct
24	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	21 sit	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 both	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 speak	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 speak	cc
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 speak	aux
30	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 speak	advmod
31	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 sit	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 word	det
33	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 speak	obj
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	37 finished	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 finished	nsubj
36	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 finished	aux:pass
37	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 speak	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 sit	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the Mock Turtle = turtle	history	lady		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient it=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the Mock Turtle			a deep hollow tone	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit down in a quote	infinitive		both			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not speak speech: other in a quote	infinitive · do-support		a word			tree rules
5	finish in a quote	present · passive		the Mock Turtle = turtle			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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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