Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 70
“Why, what are _your_ shoes done with?” said the Gryphon.
Who acts: Gryphon · What happens: be, do, say · To what, where: shoes · 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 (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 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 said | obj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 shoes | punct |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 shoes | punct |
| 9 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | nsubj |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 shoes | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 done | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Gryphon | det |
| 16 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do in a quote | participle | your shoes not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the Gryphon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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