Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 21
“Change lobsters again!” yelled the Gryphon at the top of its voice.
Who acts: Change, Gryphon · What happens: lobster, yell · 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 (Change, Gryphon), 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 | _ | 3 lobsters | punct |
| 2 | Change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lobsters | nsubj |
| 3 | lobsters | lobster | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 lobsters | advmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 lobsters | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lobsters | punct |
| 7 | yelled | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lobsters | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Gryphon | det |
| 9 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 yelled | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yelled | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 voice | nmod:poss |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 top | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lobsters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lobster in a quote | present | Change | again | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | yell speech: express | past | the Gryphon | at the top of Change's voice | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at top=Stimulus |
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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