Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 126

“By-the-bye, what became of the baby?” said the Cat.

Who acts: Cat · What happens: become, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat), 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	_	9 became	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	6 bye	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 By	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bye	det
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 the	punct
6	bye	bye	INTJ	_	9 became	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bye	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 became	nsubj
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 baby	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 baby	det
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 became	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 became	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 became	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Cat	det
17	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become in a quote	past						of the baby	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: ask	past	the Cat						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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