Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 2

They jump about like mad things while explaining, then suddenly sit down sadly and quietly.

Who acts: creatures · What happens: jump about, explain, sit down

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 (creatures), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jump	nsubj
2	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 jump	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 things	case
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 jump	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 explaining	mark
8	explaining	explain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 jump	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sit	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 sit	advmod
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 sit	advmod
12	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 jump	parataxis
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 sit	compound:prt
14	sadly	sadly	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 sit	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 quietly	cc
16	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	14 sadly	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 jump	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	jump about	present	creatures = creature		like mad things; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	explain speech: assert	gerund	creatures = creature not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	infinitive		then	sadly, suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «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:2.

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. 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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