Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 20

«Shingle» is a beach of small round pebbles; «askance» means sideways, with doubt; «a whiting» is a small sea fish.

Who acts: Shingle, askance, whiting · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: beach, small sea fish

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 (Shingle, askance, whiting), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Shingle	punct
2	Shingle	Shingle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 beach	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Shingle	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 beach	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 beach	det
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 pebbles	case
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pebbles	amod
9	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pebbles	amod
10	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beach	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 »	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 askance	punct
13	askance	askance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 means	nsubj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 askance	punct
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 beach	parataxis
16	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	15 means	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 doubt	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 doubt	case
19	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 means	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 fish	punct
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 whiting	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 whiting	det
23	whiting	whiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fish	nsubj
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 whiting	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 fish	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 fish	det
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fish	amod
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fish	compound
29	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beach	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 beach	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Shingle	a beach and a small sea fish	of small round pebbles	tree rules
2	mean	present	askance		with doubt	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sideways=Topic
3	is a	present	a whiting	a small sea fish		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:20.

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, R8-pos-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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