Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 17

The song: «"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail.

Who acts: you, song · What happens: walk, say · To what, where: faster, snail · 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, song), 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 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 «	punct
4	«	«	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 song	conj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 walk	punct
6	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 walk	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 walk	nsubj
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 «	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 faster	obl
11	faster	faster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walk	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 walk	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 walk	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 whiting	det
16	whiting	whiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 snail	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 snail	det
19	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	future	you	faster					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme faster=Trajectory
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the song and «		a snail				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to snail=Recipient

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:17.

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 ×1, 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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