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

Then the two creatures excitedly explain the Lobster Quadrille, a seaside dance: two lines of seals, turtles and salmon, each with a lobster for a partner — and then you throw the lobsters as far out to sea as you can!

Who acts: two creatures, you · What happens: explain, throw · To what, where: Lobster Quadrille, lobsters

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 (two creatures, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 explain	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 creatures	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 creatures	nummod
4	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 explain	nsubj
5	excitedly	excitedly	ADV	_	6 explain	advmod
6	explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Quadrille	det
8	Lobster	Lobster	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Quadrille	compound
9	Quadrille	Quadrille	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 explain	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dance	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dance	det
12	seaside	seaside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dance	amod
13	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Quadrille	appos
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 lines	punct
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 lines	nummod
16	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Quadrille	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 seals	case
18	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lines	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turtles	punct
20	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 seals	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 salmon	cc
22	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lines	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lobster	punct
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 lobster	det
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 lobster	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 lobster	det
27	lobster	lobster	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lines	nmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 partner	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 partner	det
30	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lobster	nmod
31	—	—	PUNCT	_	35 throw	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 throw	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 throw	advmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 throw	nsubj
35	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 explain	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lobsters	det
37	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 throw	obj
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 far	advmod
39	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 out	advmod
40	out	out	ADV	_	35 throw	advmod
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 sea	case
42	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 out	obl
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 can	mark
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 can	nsubj
45	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 out	advcl
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 explain	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present	the two creatures	the Lobster Quadrille			then	excitedly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quadrille=Topic
2	throw	present	you	the lobsters			then	out property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lobster=Theme

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:1.

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. 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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