Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 24

«It does the boots and shoes»: whiting is also an old word for a white chalk powder used for cleaning; shoes on land are «done with blacking», black polish.

Who acts: sea, whiting, old word · What happens: do, be, use · To what, where: boots, old word, white chalk powder, shoes · 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 (sea, whiting, old word), 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	_	3 does	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boots	det
5	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 does	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shoes	cc
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 boots	conj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct
10	whiting	whiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 word	cop
12	also	also	ADV	_	15 word	advmod
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 word	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 word	amod
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	parataxis
16	for	for	ADP	_	20 powder	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 powder	det
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 powder	amod
19	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 powder	compound
20	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	nmod
21	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 powder	acl
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 cleaning	case
23	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 used	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 shoes	punct
25	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 done	nsubj:pass
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 land	case
27	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shoes	nmod
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 done	aux:pass
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 done	punct
30	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 word	acl:relcl
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 »	case
32	blacking	black	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 done	obl
33	»	»	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 done	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 polish	punct
35	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 polish	amod
36	polish	polish	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 »	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present	sea	the boots and shoes		tree rules
2	is a	present	whiting	a old word	for a white chalk powder	tree rules
3	use	participle		a white chalk powder not said here	for cleaning	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do in a quote	present · passive	a old word not said here	shoes on land	with » and black polish; blacking obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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:24.

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, R6-punct-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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