Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 123
“Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a song?”
Who acts: you · What happens: like, sing · To what, where: Mock Turtle, song, you
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 (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 | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 2 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 like | cc |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Turtle | det |
| 7 | Mock | Mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Turtle | compound |
| 8 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 like | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sing | mark |
| 10 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 like | xcomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 sing | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 song | det |
| 13 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sing | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | would | you | the Mock Turtle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a song | you | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary song=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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