Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 98
“Stand up and repeat ‘’_Tis the voice of the sluggard_,’” said the Gryphon.
Who acts: Gryphon · What happens: stand up, repeat, say · To what, where: Tis · 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), 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 | _ | 2 Stand | punct |
| 2 | Stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Stand | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 repeat | cc |
| 5 | repeat | repeat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stand | conj |
| 6 | ‘’ | ‘' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tis | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tis | punct |
| 8 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 repeat | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Tis | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sluggard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sluggard | det |
| 13 | sluggard | sluggard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 voice | nmod |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tis | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stand | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stand | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stand | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Gryphon | det |
| 20 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up in a quote | infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | repeat in a quote | infinitive | Tis | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tis=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Gryphon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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