Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 93
“It’s all about as curious as it can be,” said the Gryphon.
Who acts: breath, Gryphon · What happens: be, say · 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 (breath, Gryphon), 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 | _ | 7 curious | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 curious | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 curious | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 curious | advmod |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 curious | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 curious | advmod |
| 7 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 be | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 be | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 curious | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 curious | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 curious | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Gryphon | det |
| 16 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | breath | about, all, curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Gryphon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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