Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 85

“Once,” said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, “I was a real Turtle.”

Who acts: Mock Turtle · What happens: say, be · To what, where: last, real 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Once	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Once	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	5 said	nsubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sigh	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 sigh	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sigh	det
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sigh	amod
15	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Turtle	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 Turtle	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 Turtle	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Turtle	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Turtle	det
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Turtle	amod
22	Turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sigh	appos
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 Turtle	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 sigh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Mock Turtle			last		once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	the Mock Turtle = turtle	a real Turtle					tree rules

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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