Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 90
“Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn’t one?”
Who acts: you, Hjckrrh · What happens: call, not be · To what, where: Hjckrrh, one · 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 (you, Hjckrrh), 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 call | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 call | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 call | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 call | nsubj |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 call | obj |
| 7 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 call | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 one | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 one | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | cop |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 one | advmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 call | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | past · do-support | you | Hjckrrh | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | Hjckrrh | one | 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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