Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 105

“Well, I never heard it before,” said the Mock Turtle; “but it sounds uncommon nonsense.”

Who acts: Mock Turtle, child · What happens: not hear, say, sound · To what, where: child, uncommon nonsense · 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 (Mock Turtle, child), 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	_	11 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 heard	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 heard	advmod
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obj
8	before	before	ADV	_	6 heard	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Turtle	det
13	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Turtle	compound
14	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sounds	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 sounds	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 sounds	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sounds	nsubj
19	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
20	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 nonsense	amod
21	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sounds	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not hear in a quote	past	the Mock Turtle = turtle	child	before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Mock Turtle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sound in a quote	present	child	uncommon nonsense		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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