Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 86

These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation of “Hjckrrh!” from the Gryphon, and the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle.

Who acts: long silence, Mock Turtle · What happens: follow, break, exclaim, sob · To what, where: words, long silence, Hjckrrh

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 (long silence, 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 followed	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 followed	aux:pass
4	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	9 silence	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 silence	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 silence	amod
9	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 followed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 broken	punct
11	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 silence	acl
12	only	only	ADV	_	11 broken	advmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 exclamation	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 exclamation	det
15	occasional	occasional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 exclamation	amod
16	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broken	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Hjckrrh	case
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Hjckrrh	punct
19	Hjckrrh	Hjckrrh	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 exclamation	nmod
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 Hjckrrh	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 Hjckrrh	punct
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 Gryphon	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Gryphon	det
24	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Hjckrrh	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sobbing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sobbing	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sobbing	det
28	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sobbing	amod
29	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sobbing	amod
30	sobbing	sobbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 exclamation	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 Turtle	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Turtle	det
33	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Turtle	compound
34	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 sobbing	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	past · passive	a long silence	this words		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	break	participle		a long silence not said here	by a occasional exclamation of Hjckrrh from the Gryphon and the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by exclamation=Location
3	exclaim			Hjckrrh from the Gryphon		nom exclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	sob		the Mock Turtle			nom sobbing «act intransitive»: of=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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