Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 17
“The lobsters!” shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the air.
Who acts: lobsters · What happens: shout · To what, where: 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 (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 | _ | 6 shouted | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lobsters | det |
| 3 | lobsters | lobster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shouted | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 lobsters | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lobsters | punct |
| 6 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 shouted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bound | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 bound | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bound | det |
| 12 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Gryphon | appos |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bound | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | the lobsters | the Gryphon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gryphon=Topic |
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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