Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 85
And the Gryphon added “Come, let’s hear some of _your_ adventures.”
Who acts: Gryphon, ’s, your · What happens: add, come, let, hear, adventure · To what, where: ’s, some · 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, ’s, your), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 added | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Gryphon | det |
| 3 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 added | nsubj |
| 4 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Come | punct |
| 6 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 added | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Come | conj |
| 9 | ’s | we | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 hear | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 adventures | case |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 of | punct |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 adventures | punct |
| 16 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 some | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Come | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | the Gryphon | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | ’s | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | infinitive | ’s not said here | some | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | adventure in a quote | your | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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