Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 74
“Boots and shoes under the sea,” the Gryphon went on in a deep voice, “are done with a whiting.
Who acts: Boots · What happens: go on, do · To what, where: deep voice
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 (Boots), 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 | _ | 2 Boots | punct |
| 2 | Boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 went | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 shoes | cc |
| 4 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Boots | conj |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Boots | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boots | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boots | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Gryphon | det |
| 11 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 went | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 voice | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | amod |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 done | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 done | punct |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux:pass |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 went | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 whiting | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 whiting | det |
| 24 | whiting | whiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 done | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Boots under the sea and shoes | a deep voice | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in voice=Location | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · passive | Boots under the sea and shoes not said here | with a whiting | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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