Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 4
At last the Mock Turtle recovered his voice, and, with tears running down his cheeks, he went on again:—
Who acts: Mock Turtle, tears, Turtle · What happens: recover, run down, go on · To what, where: voice, last, cheeks
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 (Mock Turtle, tears, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 recovered | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Turtle | det |
| 4 | Mock | Mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Turtle | compound |
| 5 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 recovered | nsubj |
| 6 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 voice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recovered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 tears | case |
| 13 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 went | obl |
| 14 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 tears | acl |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 running | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 running | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tears | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 recovered | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past | the Mock Turtle | Turtle's voice | last | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | |||
| 2 | run down | gerund | tears not said here | Turtle's cheeks | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cheek=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | go on | past | Turtle | again | with tears | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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