Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 110

“But about his toes?” the Mock Turtle persisted.

Who acts: toes · What happens: persist

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 (toes), 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 persisted	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 toes	cc
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 toes	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 toes	nmod:poss
5	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 persisted	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 toes	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 toes	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Turtle	det
9	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Turtle	compound
10	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 toes	nsubj
11	persisted	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 persisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	persist	past	Tis's toes						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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