Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 13

“Each with a lobster as a partner!” cried the Gryphon.

Who acts: lobster · What happens: cry

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 (lobster), 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	_	11 cried	punct
2	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 lobster	det
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 lobster	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lobster	det
5	lobster	lobster	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	nsubj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 partner	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 partner	det
8	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lobster	nmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 lobster	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 lobster	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Gryphon	det
13	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cried	nsubj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	each lobster as a partner						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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