Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 54

But they _have_ their tails in their mouths; and the reason is—” here the Mock Turtle yawned and shut his eyes.—“Tell her about the reason and all that,” he said to the Gryphon.

Who acts: crumbs, reason, Turtle · What happens: have, be, shut, tell, say · To what, where: tails, mouths, eyes, lobster, Gryphon · 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 (crumbs, reason, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 have	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	_	_	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 tails	punct
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tails	nmod:poss
7	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mouths	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouths	nmod:poss
10	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tails	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 yawned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 yawned	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reason	det
14	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 yawned	nsubj:outer
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 yawned	cop
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 yawned	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Turtle	det
20	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Turtle	compound
21	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 yawned	nsubj
22	yawned	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 shut	cc
24	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 yawned	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 eyes	nmod:poss
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shut	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
28	—	-	PUNCT	_	30 Tell	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 Tell	punct
30	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	parataxis
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 Tell	iobj
32	about	about	ADP	_	34 reason	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 reason	det
34	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Tell	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 all	cc
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 reason	nmod
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 all	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 all	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	36 all	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 said	nsubj
41	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 all	acl:relcl
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 Gryphon	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Gryphon	det
44	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 said	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have		crumbs = crumb	crumbs's tails		crumbs's mouths		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	the reason			here	yawn property	tree rules
3	shut in a quote	past	the reason not said here	Turtle's eyes				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive			lobster		about the reason all	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about reason=Topic
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Turtle		the Gryphon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to gryphon=Recipient

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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