Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 8
“Why,” said the Gryphon, “you first form into a line along the sea-shore—”
Who acts: Gryphon, you · What happens: say, form · To what, where: line · 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, you), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Gryphon | det |
| 7 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 form | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 form | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 form | nsubj |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 form | advmod |
| 12 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 line | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 line | det |
| 15 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 form | obl |
| 16 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 shore | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shore | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shore | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 sea | punct |
| 20 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 form | obl |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Gryphon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | form in a quote | present | you | a line | along the sea shore; first property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along shore=Location |
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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