Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 16
“Then, you know,” the Mock Turtle went on, “you throw the—”
Who acts: you, Mock Turtle · What happens: know, go on, throw · 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 (you, Mock Turtle), 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 went | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 know | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Turtle | det |
| 9 | Mock | Mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Turtle | compound |
| 10 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 throw | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 throw | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 throw | nsubj |
| 16 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 — | det |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 throw | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | you | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | the Mock Turtle | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | throw in a quote | present | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/16/