Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 16

Then «you throw the— The lobsters!— as far out to sea as you can», swim after them, turn a somersault, change lobsters again, and come back to land: «that's all the first figure»; to show Alice they dance it with no lobsters at all: «We can do without lobsters, you know.»

Who acts: you, that, turtles, We · What happens: throw, swim, turn, change, come back, be · To what, where: the, somersault, lobsters, first figure, Alice, lobster · 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 (you, that, turtles, We), 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	4 throw	advmod
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 throw	nsubj
4	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 throw	obj
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 lobsters	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lobsters	det
8	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 throw	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 lobsters	punct
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 lobsters	punct
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 far	advmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 out	advmod
13	out	out	ADV	_	4 throw	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 sea	case
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 out	obl
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 can	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 can	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 out	advcl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 out	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct
21	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 throw	conj
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 swim	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turn	punct
25	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 throw	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 somersault	det
27	somersault	somersault	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turn	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 change	punct
29	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 throw	conj
30	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 change	obj
31	again	again	ADV	_	29 change	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 come	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 come	cc
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 throw	conj
35	back	back	ADV	_	34 come	advmod
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 land	case
37	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 back	obl
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct
39	«	«	PUNCT	_	45 figure	punct
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 figure	nsubj
41	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 figure	cop
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 figure	det:predet
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 figure	det
44	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	45 figure	amod
45	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throw	parataxis
46	»	»	PUNCT	_	45 figure	punct
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct
48	to	to	PART	_	49 show	mark
49	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 dance	advcl
50	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 show	obj
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 dance	nsubj
52	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	parataxis
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 dance	obj
54	with	with	ADP	_	56 lobsters	case
55	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	56 lobsters	det
56	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 dance	obl
57	at	at	ADP	_	58 all	case
58	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 lobsters	nmod
59	:	:	PUNCT	_	52 dance	punct
60	«	«	PUNCT	_	63 do	punct
61	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 do	nsubj
62	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 do	aux
63	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 dance	conj
64	without	without	ADP	_	65 lobsters	case
65	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 do	obl
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 know	punct
67	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	68 know	nsubj
68	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 do	parataxis
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct
70	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	throw in a quote	present	you	the		then	out property	tree rules
2	swim	infinitive	you not said here			after turtles = turtle		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn	infinitive	you not said here	a somersault				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme
4	change	infinitive	you not said here	lobsters		again		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lobster=Patient
5	come back	infinitive	you not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a in a quote	present	that	all first figure				tree rules
7	show	to-infinitive	turtles = turtle not said here		Alice			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient
8	dance	present	turtles = turtle	lobster			with no lobsters at all	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
9	do in a quote	can	We				without lobsters	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	know in a quote	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:16.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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