Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 67
“_It does the boots and shoes_,” the Gryphon replied very solemnly.
Who acts: more, Gryphon · What happens: do, reply · To what, where: boots · 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 (more, Gryphon), 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 | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 3 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 replied | parataxis |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boots | det |
| 6 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 does | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shoes | cc |
| 8 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 boots | conj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 boots | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Gryphon | det |
| 13 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 solemnly | advmod |
| 16 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 14 replied | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | more | the boots and shoes | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Gryphon | solemnly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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