Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 55

“The reason is,” said the Gryphon, “that they _would_ go with the lobsters to the dance.

Who acts: reason · What happens: be, say, go · To what, where: reason, 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 (reason), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reason	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Gryphon	det
9	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 would	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 would	nsubj
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 they	punct
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 would	punct
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 lobsters	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lobsters	det
20	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 go	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 dance	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dance	det
23	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the reason			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the reason				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	would			the dance	with the lobsters	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dance=Initial_Location

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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