Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 89
The adventures first,” said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: “explanations take such a dreadful time.”
Who acts: adventures, explanations · What happens: say, take · To what, where: impatient tone · 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 (adventures, explanations), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 adventures | det |
| 2 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 adventures | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 adventures | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 adventures | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Gryphon | det |
| 8 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tone | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tone | det |
| 11 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tone | amod |
| 12 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 15 | explanations | explanation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 take | nsubj |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 time | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the adventures | a impatient tone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | present | explanations | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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