Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 22

“Back to land again, and that’s all the first figure,” said the Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping his voice; and the two creatures, who had been jumping about like mad things all this time, sat down again very sadly and quietly, and looked at Alice.

Who acts: that, Mock Turtle, two creatures · What happens: land, be, say, drop, jump about, sit down · To what, where: first figure, 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 (that, Mock Turtle, two creatures), 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	_	4 land	punct
2	Back	back	ADV	_	4 land	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 land	mark
4	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 land	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 figure	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 figure	cc
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 figure	nsubj
9	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 figure	cop
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 figure	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 figure	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 figure	amod
13	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 land	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 land	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 land	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Turtle	det
18	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Turtle	compound
19	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dropping	punct
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	22 dropping	advmod
22	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	advcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 voice	nmod:poss
24	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dropping	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 creatures	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 creatures	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 creatures	det
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 creatures	nummod
29	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 sat	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 jumping	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 jumping	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 jumping	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 jumping	aux
34	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 creatures	acl:relcl
35	about	about	ADV	_	34 jumping	advmod
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 things	case
37	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 things	amod
38	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 jumping	obl
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 time	det:predet
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 time	det
41	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 jumping	obl:unmarked
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sat	punct
43	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	parataxis
44	down	down	ADP	_	43 sat	compound:prt
45	again	again	ADV	_	43 sat	advmod
46	very	very	ADV	_	47 sadly	advmod
47	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	43 sat	advmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 quietly	cc
49	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	47 sadly	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 looked	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 looked	cc
52	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 sat	conj
53	at	at	ADP	_	54 Alice	case
54	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 looked	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	land in a quote	to-infinitive			again		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	that	all first figure			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the Mock Turtle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	drop	gerund	the Mock Turtle not said here	Turtle's voice		suddenly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme
5	jump about	past · perfect · progressive	the two creatures		time	like mad things; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sit down	past	the two creatures		again	sadly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	look	past	the two creatures not said here			at Alice	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at alice=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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