Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 15
“—change lobsters, and retire in same order,” continued the Gryphon.
Who acts: change lobsters · What happens: retire, continue · To what, where: same order, Gryphon
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 (change lobsters), 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 | _ | 13 continued | punct |
| 2 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 lobsters | punct |
| 3 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lobsters | compound |
| 4 | lobsters | lobster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 continued | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 retire | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 retire | cc |
| 7 | retire | retire | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 lobsters | appos |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 order | case |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 order | amod |
| 10 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 retire | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 retire | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 retire | punct |
| 13 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Gryphon | det |
| 15 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 continued | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire in a quote | infinitive | same order | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | continue | past | change lobsters | the Gryphon | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent gryphon=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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