Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 127
The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes choked with sobs, to sing this:—
Who acts: Mock Turtle · What happens: sigh, begin, choke, sing · To what, where: voice, this
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Turtle | det |
| 2 | Mock | Mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Turtle | compound |
| 3 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sighed | nsubj |
| 4 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 4 sighed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sighed | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 choked | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 voice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 choked | obl |
| 13 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 choked | advmod |
| 14 | choked | choke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 began | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 sobs | case |
| 16 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 choked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sing | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sing | mark |
| 19 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 choked | conj |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 sing | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 sighed | punct |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the Mock Turtle | deeply property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Mock Turtle not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | choke | participle | a voice | with sobs; sometimes property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sob=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | this | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location this=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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