Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 94
At last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, “Drive on, old fellow!
What happens: say, drive · To what, where: Mock Turtle, last Gryphon, old fellow · 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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Gryphon | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Gryphon | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Gryphon | det |
| 4 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Turtle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Turtle | det |
| 8 | Mock | Mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Turtle | compound |
| 9 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Drive | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Drive | punct |
| 12 | Drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 Drive | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fellow | punct |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fellow | amod |
| 16 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Drive | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the Mock Turtle | the last Gryphon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to turtle=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | drive in a quote | infinitive | old fellow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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