Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 15
The dance: two lines on the sea-shore (seals, turtles, salmon and so on), clear the jelly-fish out of the way, advance twice, each with a lobster as partner, set to partners, change lobsters, retire.
What happens: clear, advance, set, change, retire · To what, where: jelly fish, way, 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: 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 | 2 dance | det |
| 2 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 lines | punct |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 lines | nummod |
| 5 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dance | appos |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 shore | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shore | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shore | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sea | punct |
| 10 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lines | nmod |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 seals | punct |
| 12 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lines | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turtles | punct |
| 14 | turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seals | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 salmon | punct |
| 16 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shore | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 so | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 lines | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 lines | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lines | punct |
| 22 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dance | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fish | det |
| 24 | jelly | jelly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fish | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 jelly | punct |
| 26 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 clear | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 way | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 way | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 clear | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 advance | punct |
| 32 | advance | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dance | conj |
| 33 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 32 advance | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 advance | punct |
| 35 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 dance | nmod |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 lobster | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 lobster | det |
| 38 | lobster | lobster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 each | nmod |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 partner | case |
| 40 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lobster | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 set | punct |
| 42 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 dance | parataxis |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 partners | case |
| 44 | partners | partner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 set | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 lobsters | punct |
| 46 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 set | conj |
| 47 | lobsters | lobster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 change | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 retire | punct |
| 49 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 set | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dance | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clear | infinitive | the jelly fish | the way | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fish=Theme out way=Source | ||||
| 2 | advance | infinitive | twice property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | to partners | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | change | infinitive | lobsters | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lobster=Patient | |||||
| 5 | retire | infinitive | vn resign-10.11-1 «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.
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:15.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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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