Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 114

“Go on with the next verse,” the Gryphon repeated impatiently: “it begins ‘_I passed by his garden_.’”

Who acts: Gryphon, verse, Alice · What happens: go on, repeat, begin, pass · 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 (Gryphon, verse, Alice), 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	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 repeated	ccomp
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 verse	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 verse	det
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 verse	amod
7	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Gryphon	det
11	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 repeated	nsubj
12	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	_	12 repeated	advmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 begins	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 begins	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 begins	nsubj
17	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 repeated	parataxis
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 passed	nsubj
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 begins	ccomp
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 garden	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 garden	nmod:poss
24	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 passed	obl
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 begins	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 begins	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go on in a quote	infinitive	the Gryphon not said here	with the next verse	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	repeat	past	the Gryphon	impatiently property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin in a quote	present	verse		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	pass in a quote	past	Alice	by thing's garden	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by garden=Location

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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