Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 2
He looked at Alice, and tried to speak, but for a minute or two sobs choked his voice.
Who acts: Turtle · What happens: look, try, speak, choke · To what, where: voice · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Alice | case |
| 4 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tried | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tried | cc |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 speak | mark |
| 9 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 choked | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 choked | cc |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 minute | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 minute | det |
| 14 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 choked | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 sobs | cc |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 sobs | nummod |
| 17 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 minute | conj |
| 18 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 voice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 choked | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Turtle | at Alice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at alice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | Turtle not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | Turtle not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | choke | past | Turtle not said here | Turtle's voice | minute | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme voice=Destination |
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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