Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 3

To show Alice, they dance round and round her, treading on her toes, while the Mock Turtle sings, slowly and sadly, «Will you walk a little faster?» said a whiting to a snail.

Who acts: creatures, Mock Turtle, snail, whiting · What happens: show, dance, tread, sing, walk, say · To what, where: Alice, toes, snail · 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 (creatures, Mock Turtle, snail, 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	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dance	advcl
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dance	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dance	nsubj
6	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 said	parataxis
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 dance	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 round	cc
9	round	round	ADV	_	7 round	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dance	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 treading	punct
12	treading	tread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dance	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 toes	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 toes	nmod:poss
15	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 treading	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sings	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 sings	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Turtle	det
19	Mock	mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Turtle	compound
20	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 sings	nsubj
21	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dance	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 slowly	punct
23	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	21 sings	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sadly	cc
25	sadly	sadly	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 slowly	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 slowly	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 walk	punct
28	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 walk	aux
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 walk	nsubj
30	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 said	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 little	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 faster	obl
33	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 walk	advmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 show	punct
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 whiting	det
38	whiting	whiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 said	nsubj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 snail	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 snail	det
41	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 said	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive	creatures = creature not said here		Alice			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient
2	dance	present	creatures = creature	Alice			round property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tread	gerund	creatures = creature not said here			Alice's toes		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory
4	sing speech: express	present	the Mock Turtle				slowly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	walk in a quote	future	a snail = snail					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: ask	past	a whiting		a snail			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to snail=Recipient clause=Topic

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:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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