Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 101

“’Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, “You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.”

Who acts: Alice, Tis, You, I · What happens: hear, declare, bake, hair · To what, where: Tis, me

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 (Alice, Tis, You, I), 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	_	5 voice	punct
2	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 Tis	punct
3	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 voice	compound
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 voice	det
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Lobster	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lobster	det
8	Lobster	Lobster	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 voice	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 voice	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	obj
13	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 heard	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 baked	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 baked	punct
16	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 baked	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 baked	aux
18	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 heard	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 baked	obj
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 brown	advmod
21	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 baked	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hair	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 hair	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 hair	aux
25	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hair	compound
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hair	nmod:poss
27	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 voice	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 voice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	past	Alice	Tis		tree rules
2	declare speech: other in a quote	infinitive	Tis not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	bake	present · perfect	You	me	brown property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product
4	hair	must	I			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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