Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 143

“Come on!” cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by the hand, it hurried off, without waiting for the end of the song.

Who acts: Gryphon, cry · What happens: come on, cry, take, hurry off, wait · To what, where: Alice · 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 (Gryphon, cry), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	parataxis
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Gryphon	det
8	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taking	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 taking	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taking	punct
12	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cried	advcl
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 taking	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hand	det
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taking	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hurried	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hurried	nsubj
19	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	parataxis
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 hurried	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waiting	punct
22	without	without	SCONJ	_	23 waiting	mark
23	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 hurried	advcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 end	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 end	det
26	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 waiting	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 song	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 song	det
29	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 end	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come on in a quote	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	the Gryphon				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	gerund	the Gryphon not said here	Alice		by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument alice=Destination
4	hurry off	past	cry				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wait	gerund	cry not said here		for the end of the song		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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