Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 48

“Oh, as to the whiting,” said the Mock Turtle, “they—you’ve seen them, of course?”

Who acts: Mock Turtle, England · What happens: say, see · To what, where: forepaws · 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 (Mock Turtle, England), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 whiting	case
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 whiting	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 whiting	det
7	whiting	whiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Oh	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Turtle	det
12	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Turtle	compound
13	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seen	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 seen	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seen	nsubj
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 they	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 seen	nsubj
19	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 seen	aux
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seen	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 course	punct
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 course	case
24	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seen	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 seen	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the Mock Turtle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	present · perfect	England	forepaws = forepaw				of course	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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