Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 33
“There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail.
Who acts: porpoise · What happens: tread · To what, where: tail
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 (porpoise), 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 ’s | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 ’s | expl |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 porpoise | det |
| 5 | porpoise | porpoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’s | obj |
| 6 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 porpoise | advmod |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 porpoise | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 treading | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 treading | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 treading | nsubj |
| 12 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 treading | aux |
| 13 | treading | tread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ’s | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 tail | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tail | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treading | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tread in a quote | present · progressive | porpoise | my tail | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tail=Trajectory |
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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