Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 99

“Hold your tongue!” added the Gryphon, before Alice could speak again.

Who acts: you, Gryphon, Alice · What happens: hold, add, speak · To what, where: tongue · 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, Gryphon, 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	_	2 Hold	punct
2	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tongue	nmod:poss
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hold	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
7	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Hold	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Gryphon	det
9	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 added	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 speak	punct
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 speak	mark
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 speak	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 speak	aux
14	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Hold	conj
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 speak	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hold in a quote	imperative	you not said here	your tongue		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
2	add speech: express	past	the Gryphon			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	could	Alice		again	vn talk-37.5 «NP 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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