Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 3

“Same as if he had a bone in his throat,” said the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him and punching him in the back.

Who acts: Turtle, Gryphon · What happens: have, say, set, work, shake, punch · To what, where: bone, throat, Turtle, back · 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, 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	_	2 Same	punct
2	Same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Same	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bone	det
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 throat	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 throat	nmod:poss
11	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bone	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Same	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Same	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Gryphon	det
16	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 set	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 set	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 set	nsubj
20	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 work	mark
22	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 set	xcomp
23	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 work	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 shaking	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 punching	cc
26	punching	punch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 shaking	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 punching	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 back	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 back	det
30	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 punching	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	Turtle	a bone	Turtle's throat	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Gryphon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	set	past	Gryphon			tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	Gryphon not said here			tree rules
5	shake	gerund	Gryphon not said here	Turtle		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	punch	gerund	Gryphon not said here	Turtle	the back	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in back=Location

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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