Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 104

“That’s different from what _I_ used to say when I was a child,” said the Gryphon.

Who acts: That, Gryphon · What happens: be, use, say · To what, where: child · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (That, Gryphon), 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	_	4 different	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 different	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 different	cop
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	ccomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 what	case
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 different	conj
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 what	nsubj
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 used	punct
10	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 different	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 say	mark
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 used	xcomp
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 child	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 child	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 child	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 child	det
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 different	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 different	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Gryphon	det
22	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That		different property	tree rules
2	use in a quote	participle				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	past	the Gryphon = gryphon	a child		tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	the Gryphon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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