Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 126
Sing her ‘_Turtle Soup_,’ will you, old fellow?”
Who acts: you · What happens: sing · To what, where: kind
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 | Sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Sing | obj |
| 3 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Soup | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Soup | punct |
| 5 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Soup | compound |
| 6 | Soup | Soup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sing | parataxis |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Soup | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sing | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sing | punct |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sing | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 will | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fellow | punct |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fellow | amod |
| 14 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sing | parataxis |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sing | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | imperative | you not said here | kind | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=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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