Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 93

“You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,” added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.

Who acts: Gryphon, word, poor Alice · What happens: be, ask, add, sit, look, feel · To what, where: simple question, earth · 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 (Gryphon, word, poor Alice), 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	_	6 ashamed	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 ought	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ashamed	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	6 ashamed	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 ashamed	cop
6	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 yourself	case
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 ashamed	obl
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 asking	mark
10	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ashamed	advcl
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 question	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 question	det
13	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 question	amod
14	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asking	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ashamed	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 ashamed	punct
17	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ashamed	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Gryphon	det
19	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 added	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sat	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 sat	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sat	nsubj
24	both	both	ADV	_	25 sat	advmod
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ashamed	parataxis
26	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sat	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 looked	cc
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sat	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 Alice	case
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Alice	amod
31	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 looked	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 felt	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 felt	nsubj
34	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 Alice	acl:relcl
35	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 felt	xcomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 sink	mark
37	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 ready	xcomp
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 earth	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 earth	det
40	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sink	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ashamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	ought					of yourself; ashamed property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	gerund		such simple question				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
3	add speech: assert	past	the Gryphon					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past	word			then	both, silent property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	past	word not said here				at poor Alice	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at alice=Theme
6	feel	past	poor Alice				ready property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	sink	to-infinitive	poor Alice not said here		the earth			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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