Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 26

“Come, let’s try the first figure!” said the Mock Turtle to the Gryphon.

Who acts: ’s, Mock Turtle · What happens: come, let, try, say · To what, where: ’s, first figure, Gryphon · 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 (’s, 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
5	’s	we	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 figure	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 figure	amod
9	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 try	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Turtle	det
14	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Turtle	compound
15	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 Gryphon	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Gryphon	det
18	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let in a quote	infinitive		’s		tree rules
3	try in a quote	infinitive	’s not said here	the first figure		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Eventuality
4	say speech: express	past	the Mock Turtle		the Gryphon	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to gryphon=Recipient clause=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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