Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 108
“She can’t explain it,” said the Gryphon hastily.
Who acts: Alice, Gryphon · What happens: not explain, say · To what, where: way · 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 (Alice, 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 | _ | 5 explain | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 explain | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 explain | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 explain | advmod |
| 5 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 explain | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 explain | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 explain | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Gryphon | det |
| 11 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 11 Gryphon | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not explain speech: assert in a quote | can | Alice | way | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Gryphon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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