Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 23
The Gryphon's reason: they went with the lobsters to the dance, got thrown out to sea, fell a long way, got their tails fast in their mouths, and couldn't get them out again.
Who acts: turtles · What happens: go, throw out, fall, get, not get out · To what, where: dance, sea, long way, tails, mouths, turtles
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 (turtles), 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 Gryphon | det |
| 2 | Gryphon | gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reason | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Gryphon | case |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reason | parataxis |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 lobsters | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lobsters | det |
| 10 | lobsters | lobster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 dance | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dance | det |
| 13 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thrown | punct |
| 15 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thrown | aux:pass |
| 16 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 went | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 thrown | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thrown | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fell | punct |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 way | amod |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 got | punct |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fell | conj |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 tails | nmod:poss |
| 28 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 got | obj |
| 29 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 got | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 mouths | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 got | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 get | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 get | cc |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 get | aux |
| 36 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 get | advmod |
| 37 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 got | parataxis |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 get | obj |
| 39 | out | out | PART | _ | 37 get | compound:prt |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 37 get | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | turtles = turtle | the dance | with the lobsters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dance=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | throw out | past · passive | turtles = turtle not said here | sea | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: to sea=Destination | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | turtles = turtle not said here | a long way | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | past | turtles = turtle not said here | turtles's tails | turtles's mouths | fast property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | not get out | could | turtles = turtle | again | 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:23.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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