Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 78
“How are you getting on?” said the Cat, as soon as there was mouth enough for it to speak with.
Who acts: you, Cat, mouth · What happens: get on, say, be, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Cat, mouth), 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 | _ | 5 getting | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 getting | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 getting | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 getting | nsubj |
| 5 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 getting | compound:prt |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 getting | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 getting | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Cat | det |
| 11 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 soon | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 soon | advmod |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 said | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 was | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 soon | advcl |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 19 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 18 mouth | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 speak | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 speak | nsubj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 speak | mark |
| 23 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 mouth | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 speak | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get on in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Cat | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be | past | mouth | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | mouth | 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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