Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 71
“I mean, what makes them so shiny?”
Who acts: Gryphon · What happens: mean, make · To what, where: shoes
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 | _ | 6 makes | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 makes | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 makes | nsubj |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 makes | obj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 shiny | advmod |
| 9 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 makes | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | the Gryphon = gryphon | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | shoes = shoe | shiny property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product |
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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