Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 122
“Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?” the Gryphon went on.
Who acts: we, Gryphon · What happens: try, go on, figure · To what, where: figure, Lobster Quadrille · 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 (we, 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 | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 try | nsubj |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 figure | det |
| 6 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 try | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Quadrille | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Quadrille | det |
| 9 | Lobster | Lobster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Quadrille | compound |
| 10 | Quadrille | Quadrille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 figure | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Gryphon | det |
| 14 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | shall | we | another figure of the Lobster Quadrille | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | the Gryphon | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | figure in a quote | the Lobster Quadrille | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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