Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 78
“Soles and eels, of course,” the Gryphon replied rather impatiently: “any shrimp could have told you that.”
Who acts: Soles · What happens: reply, tell · To what, where: shrimp, you · 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 (Soles), 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 Soles | punct |
| 2 | Soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 eels | cc |
| 4 | eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Soles | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 course | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 course | case |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Soles | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Soles | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Soles | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Gryphon | det |
| 11 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 14 impatiently | advmod |
| 14 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 12 replied | advmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 shrimp | det |
| 18 | shrimp | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 told | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 told | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 told | aux |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 replied | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Soles and eels and course | impatiently property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | could · perfect · passive | any shrimp | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=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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