Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 22

Cooks in Alice's time served whiting curled with the tail in its mouth and covered in breadcrumbs; the Mock Turtle says the crumbs «would all wash off in the sea».

Who acts: Cooks, Mock Turtle, crumbs · What happens: serve, curl, cover, say, wash off · To what, where: whiting, sea · 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 (Cooks, Mock Turtle, crumbs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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.

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