Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 20

“Turn a somersault in the sea!” cried the Mock Turtle, capering wildly about.

Who acts: Mock Turtle · What happens: turn, cry, caper · To what, where: somersault · 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 (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	_	2 Turn	punct
2	Turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 somersault	det
4	somersault	somersault	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Turn	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Turn	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Turn	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Turn	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Turtle	det
12	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Turtle	compound
13	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cried	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 capering	punct
15	capering	caper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cried	advcl
16	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	17 about	advmod
17	about	about	ADV	_	15 capering	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn in a quote	infinitive		a somersault	in the sea	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Patient in sea=Topic
2	cry speech: express	past	the Mock Turtle			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	caper	gerund	the Mock Turtle not said here		about property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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