Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 14

A quadrille is an old-fashioned dance for couples, done in steps called «figures»; the Lobster Quadrille is Carroll's made-up sea version.

Who acts: quadrille, steps, Lobster Quadrille · What happens: be, do, call, make up · To what, where: fashioned dance, figures, made sea version · 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 (quadrille, steps, Lobster Quadrille), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 quadrille	det
2	quadrille	quadrille	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dance	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dance	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dance	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fashioned	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
7	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dance	amod
8	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 couples	case
10	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dance	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 dance	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 steps	case
14	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 done	obl
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 steps	acl
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 figures	punct
17	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 called	xcomp
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 figures	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 dance	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Quadrille	det
21	Lobster	Lobster	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Quadrille	compound
22	Quadrille	Quadrille	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 version	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 version	cop
24	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 version	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Carroll	case
26	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 version	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 up	punct
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 made	compound:prt
29	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 version	compound
30	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dance	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dance	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a quadrille	a fashioned dance	for couples	tree rules
2	do	participle		a fashioned dance not said here	in steps	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	participle	steps not said here	figures		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make up	participle				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	the Lobster Quadrille	Carroll's made sea version		tree rules

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:14.

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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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