Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 145

Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only answered “Come on!” and ran the faster, while more and more faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:—

Who acts: Alice, Gryphon, breeze · What happens: pant, run, answer, come on, come, carry · To what, where: faster, breeze · 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 (Alice, Gryphon, breeze), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 panted	nsubj
2	panted	pant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 ran	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 panted	advcl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 answered	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Gryphon	det
9	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 answered	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 answered	advmod
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 panted	parataxis
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Come	punct
13	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answered	ccomp
14	on	on	ADV	_	13 Come	advmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 Come	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 Come	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ran	cc
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 panted	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 faster	det
20	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 ran	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 came	mark
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 more	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 more	cc
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 faintly	advmod
26	faintly	faintly	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ran	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 carried	punct
29	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 came	advcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 breeze	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 breeze	det
32	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carried	obl
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 followed	nsubj
34	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 breeze	acl:relcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 followed	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 words	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 words	det
38	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 words	compound
39	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 breeze	conj
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 panted	punct
41	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 panted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pant	past	Alice				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run	past	Alice				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	answer speech: express	past	the Gryphon				tree rules
4	come on in a quote	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run	past	Alice not said here	the faster			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fast=Trajectory
6	come	past	Alice not said here			faintly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	carry	participle	Alice not said here		the breeze and the melancholy words		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	follow	past	the breeze and the melancholy words	breeze			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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