Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 97

He looked at the Gryphon as if he thought it had some kind of authority over Alice.

Who acts: Turtle, breath · What happens: look, think, have · To what, where: kind · 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 (Turtle, breath), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 Gryphon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Gryphon	det
5	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	ccomp
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 kind	det
13	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 authority	case
15	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kind	nmod
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 Alice	case
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 authority	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	Turtle		at the Gryphon	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gryphon=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	Turtle			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	past	breath	some kind of authority over Alice		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient

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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