Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 121
“Yes, I think you’d better leave off,” said the Gryphon: and Alice was only too glad to do so.
Who acts: I, you, Gryphon, Alice · What happens: think, have, leave off, say, be, do · 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 (I, you, Gryphon, 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 think | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 ’d | nsubj |
| 7 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | ccomp |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 ’d | xcomp |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ’d | xcomp |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 leave | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Gryphon | det |
| 15 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 glad | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 glad | cc |
| 18 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 glad | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 glad | cop |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 glad | advmod |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 glad | advmod |
| 22 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 glad | xcomp |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 do | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave off in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Gryphon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Alice | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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