Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 25

But the insolence of his Normans—’ How are you getting on now, my dear?” it continued, turning to Alice as it spoke.

Who acts: you, conduct · What happens: get, continue, turn, speak · To what, where: insolence, Alice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, conduct), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 insolence	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 insolence	det
3	insolence	insolence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 continued	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Normans	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Normans	nmod:poss
6	Normans	Norman	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 insolence	nmod
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 getting	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 getting	punct
9	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 getting	advmod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 getting	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 getting	nsubj
12	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 insolence	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 now	case
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 getting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dear	punct
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 dear	nmod:poss
17	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 getting	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 getting	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 insolence	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 continued	nsubj
21	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turning	punct
23	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 continued	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 Alice	case
25	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 turning	obl
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 spoke	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 spoke	nsubj
28	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 turning	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	you			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on now=Source
2	continue in a quote	past	conduct	the insolence of William's Normans		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn in a quote	gerund	conduct not said here		Alice	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to alice=Result
4	speak speech: other in a quote	past	conduct			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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