Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 88

“When we were little,” the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, “we went to school in the sea.

Who acts: we, Mock Turtle · What happens: be, go on, sob, go · To what, where: last, little, sea

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 (we, 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	_	11 went	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 little	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 little	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 little	cop
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 went	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 little	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 little	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Turtle	det
9	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Turtle	compound
10	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	on	on	ADP	_	11 went	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 calmly	punct
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 calmly	advmod
17	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sobbing	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 sobbing	mark
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 sobbing	advmod
21	sobbing	sob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 went	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sobbing	obj
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 sobbing	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 then	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 now	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sobbing	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 school	case
32	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 sea	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sea	det
35	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	we				little property	tree rules
2	go on	past	the Mock Turtle		last		calmly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
3	sob	gerund	the Mock Turtle not said here	a little		still; now		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme
4	go in a quote	past	we		the sea		to school	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

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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