Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 124

“Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,” Alice replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather offended tone, “Hm!

Who acts: Mock Turtle, kind, Gryphon · What happens: be, reply, say · 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 (Mock Turtle, kind, 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	_	16 kind	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	16 kind	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Oh	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	please	please	INTJ	_	2 Oh	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 kind	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Turtle	det
11	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Turtle	compound
12	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 kind	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 kind	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 kind	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 kind	advmod
16	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 replied	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kind	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 kind	punct
19	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 replied	nsubj
20	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eagerly	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 eagerly	advmod
23	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	20 replied	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 said	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Gryphon	det
26	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 eagerly	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tone	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 tone	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tone	det
31	rather	rather	ADV	_	32 offended	advmod
32	offended	offended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tone	amod
33	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Hm	punct
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 Hm	punct
36	Hm	hm	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tone	conj
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	would	the Mock Turtle	kind property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	kind	eagerly property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the Gryphon		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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