Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 111
“How _could_ he turn them out with his nose, you know?”
Who acts: _, Turtle, you · What happens: _, turn out, know · To what, where: toes
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 (_, Turtle, you), 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 | _ | 7 turn | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 _ | advmod |
| 3 | _ | _ | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 _ | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 _ | aux |
| 5 | _ | _ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 turn | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turn | nsubj |
| 7 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turn | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 turn | compound:prt |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 nose | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 nose | nmod:poss |
| 12 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turn | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 turn | parataxis |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 turn | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ in a quote | could | _ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | turn out in a quote | infinitive | Turtle | toes = toe | with Turtle's nose | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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