Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 0

The Mock Turtle sobs so hard he can't speak, and the Gryphon thumps him on the back as if he had a bone stuck in his throat.

Who acts: he, Gryphon · What happens: sob, not speak, thump, have, stick · To what, where: him, bone, throat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise)» of the books 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 (he, Gryphon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sobs	det
2	Mock	mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Turtle	compound
3	Turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sobs	compound
4	sobs	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 speak	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 speak	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 speak	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 speak	advmod
10	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sobs	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thumps	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thumps	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Gryphon	det
14	Gryphon	gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 thumps	nsubj
15	thumps	thump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sobs	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thumps	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 back	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 back	det
19	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thumps	obl
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thumps	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bone	det
25	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 bone	acl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 throat	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 throat	nmod:poss
29	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stuck	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sobs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sob	present					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not speak speech: other	can	he			hard property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	thump	present	the Gryphon	him = he		on the back	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on back=Patient
4	have	past	Gryphon	a bone			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
5	stick	participle		a bone not said here	Gryphon's throat		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in throat=Destination

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.lesson:0.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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