Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 103

[later editions continued as follows When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.]

Who acts: sands, editions, tide, sharks, voice · What happens: continue, follow, be, talk, rise, have · To what, where: editions, contemptuous tones, timid sound, Shark

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 (sands, editions, tide, sharks), 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	_	3 editions	punct
2	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 editions	advmod
3	editions	edition	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gay	nsubj
4	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 editions	acl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 follows	mark
6	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 continued	advcl
7	When	when	SCONJ	_	12 dry	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sands	det
9	sands	sand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dry	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dry	cop
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 dry	advmod
12	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 continued	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 editions	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gay	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gay	cop
16	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 lark	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lark	det
19	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gay	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 talk	punct
21	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 talk	cc
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 talk	aux
23	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 gay	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 tones	case
25	contemptuous	contemptuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tones	amod
26	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 talk	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Shark	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Shark	det
29	Shark	Shark	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 tones	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 has	punct
31	But	but	CCONJ	_	44 has	cc
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 But	punct
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	36 rises	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tide	det
35	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rises	nsubj
36	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 has	advcl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 around	cc
38	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 around	nsubj
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 around	cop
40	around	around	ADV	_	36 rises	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 has	punct
42	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 voice	nmod:poss
43	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 has	nsubj
44	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gay	parataxis
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 sound	det
46	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 sound	amod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 tremulous	cc
48	tremulous	tremulous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 timid	conj
49	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 has	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 gay	punct
51	]	]	PUNCT	_	16 gay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	participle		editions not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	follow	present					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	the sands			all, dry property	tree rules
4	is	present	editions			as a lark; gay property	tree rules
5	talk	future			contemptuous tones of the Shark		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rise	present	the tide				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	sharks			around property	tree rules
8	have	present	Tis's voice	a timid sound			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient
9	intonate			the Shark			nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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