Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 128
“Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen!
What happens: wait · To what, where: hot tureen
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: 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 | _ | 6 rich | punct |
| 2 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Soup | amod |
| 3 | Soup | Soup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rich | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rich | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 rich | advmod |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 green | cc |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rich | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Waiting | punct |
| 10 | Waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 rich | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tureen | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tureen | det |
| 13 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tureen | amod |
| 14 | tureen | tureen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Waiting | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 rich | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | gerund | a hot tureen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tureen=Location |
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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