Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 9

A whiting is a real silvery fish of the cod family from the North Sea; Victorian cooks served it fried with its tail fixed in its mouth, and that is where the Mock Turtle's «tails in their mouths» joke comes from: live whiting swim like any other fish.

Who acts: whiting, Victorian cooks, that, tails joke, live whiting, Mock Turtle · What happens: be, serve, fry, fix, come, swim · To what, where: real silvery fish, whiting, tail, mouth

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whiting, Victorian cooks, that, tails joke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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.

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