Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 89

The master was an old Turtle—we used to call him Tortoise—”

Who acts: master, we · What happens: be, use, call · To what, where: old Turtle, Hjckrrh · 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 (master, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 master	det
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Turtle	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Turtle	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Turtle	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Turtle	amod
6	Turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 used	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 used	nsubj
9	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Turtle	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 call	mark
11	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 used	xcomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 call	obj
13	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 call	xcomp
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 Turtle	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Turtle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the master	a old Turtle		tree rules
2	use	past	we	a old Turtle not said here		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent turtle=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	call	to-infinitive	we not said here		Hjckrrh	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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