Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 32
“Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail.
Who acts: snail, whiting · What happens: walk, say · To what, where: snail · 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 (snail, whiting), 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 walk | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 walk | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 walk | nsubj |
| 4 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 faster | obl |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 walk | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 walk | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 walk | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 whiting | det |
| 12 | whiting | whiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 snail | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 snail | det |
| 15 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk in a quote | future | a snail = snail | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | a whiting | a snail | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to snail=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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