Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 92

“We called him Tortoise because he taught us,” said the Mock Turtle angrily: “really you are very dull!”

Who acts: We, Hjckrrh, Mock Turtle, you · What happens: call, teach, say, be · To what, where: Hjckrrh, us · 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 (We, Hjckrrh, Mock Turtle, you), 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	_	3 called	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obj
5	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 taught	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 taught	nsubj
8	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	advcl
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 taught	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Turtle	det
14	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Turtle	compound
15	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
16	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 dull	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 dull	punct
19	really	really	ADV	_	23 dull	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 dull	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 dull	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 dull	advmod
23	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	parataxis
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 dull	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 dull	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	call in a quote	past	We	Hjckrrh		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	teach speech: other in a quote	past	Hjckrrh	us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
3	say speech: express	past	the Mock Turtle		angrily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	you		dull property	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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