Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 39

But the snail replied “Too far, too far!” and gave a look askance— Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance.

Who acts: snail · What happens: reply, give, say, thank, not join · To what, where: look, whiting, dance · 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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 replied	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snail	det
3	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 replied	nsubj
4	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 far	punct
6	Too	too	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 replied	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 far	punct
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 far	advmod
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 far	advmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 far	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 replied	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gave	cc
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 replied	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 look	det
16	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
17	askance	askance	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 look	xcomp
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 Said	punct
19	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 replied	parataxis
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thanked	nsubj
21	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Said	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 whiting	det
23	whiting	whiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thanked	obj
24	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	21 thanked	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 join	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 join	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 join	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 join	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 join	advmod
30	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Said	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dance	det
32	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 join	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the snail		far property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	the snail not said here	a look		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	thank speech: thank	past	snail	the whiting	kindly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whiting=Theme
5	not join	would	snail	the dance		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Patient

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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