Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 1
The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and drew the back of one flapper across his eyes.
Who acts: Mock Turtle · What happens: sigh, draw · To what, where: back, eyes
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mock Turtle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Turtle | det |
| 2 | Mock | Mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Turtle | compound |
| 3 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sighed | nsubj |
| 4 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 4 sighed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drew | cc |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sighed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 back | det |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 flapper | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 flapper | nummod |
| 13 | flapper | flapper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 back | nmod |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 16 eyes | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the Mock Turtle | deeply property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | the Mock Turtle not said here | the back of one flapper | Turtle's eyes | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
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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