Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 92

Her listeners were perfectly quiet till she got to the part about her repeating “_You are old, Father William_,” to the Caterpillar, and the words all coming different, and then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath, and said “That’s very curious.”

Who acts: listeners, Alice, You, words, Mock Turtle, That · What happens: be, get, repeat, come, draw, say · To what, where: long breath · 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 (listeners, Alice, You, words), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 listeners	nmod:poss
2	listeners	listener	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 quiet	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quiet	cop
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	5 quiet	advmod
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 got	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quiet	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 part	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 part	det
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obl
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 part	nmod
14	repeating	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 her	advcl
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 old	punct
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 old	punct
17	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 old	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 old	cop
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 repeating	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Father	punct
21	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 old	vocative
22	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Father	flat
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 Father	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 old	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 old	punct
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 Caterpillar	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Caterpillar	det
28	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 old	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 coming	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 coming	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 words	det
32	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 coming	nsubj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 coming	nsubj
34	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 old	advcl
35	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 coming	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 drew	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 drew	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 drew	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Turtle	det
40	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Turtle	compound
41	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 drew	nsubj
42	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 old	parataxis
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 breath	det
44	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 breath	amod
45	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 drew	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 said	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 said	cc
48	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 drew	conj
49	“	"	PUNCT	_	53 curious	punct
50	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 curious	nsubj
51	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 curious	cop
52	very	very	ADV	_	53 curious	advmod
53	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 said	ccomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 curious	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Alice's listeners			perfectly, quiet property	tree rules
2	get	past	Alice			to the part about person result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to part=Result
3	repeat	gerund	Alice not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is in a quote	present	You			to the Caterpillar; Father vocative; old property	tree rules
5	come	gerund	the words			different property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	draw	past	the Mock Turtle	a long breath	then		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	the Mock Turtle not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	is in a quote	present	That			curious property	tree rules

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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