Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 53

“You’re wrong about the crumbs,” said the Mock Turtle: “crumbs would all wash off in the sea.

Who acts: You, Mock Turtle, crumbs · What happens: be, say, wash off · To what, where: sea · 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 (You, Mock Turtle, crumbs), 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 ’re	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 ’re	nsubj
3	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ’re	xcomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 crumbs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crumbs	det
7	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrong	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ’re	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 ’re	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	_	19 wash	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 wash	punct
16	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wash	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 wash	aux
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 wash	advmod
19	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 wash	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 sea	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sea	det
23	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wash	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	does in a quote	present	You		wrong property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Mock Turtle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wash off in a quote	would	crumbs	the sea	all property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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