Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 7
The Gryphon explains, very seriously, why whitings have their tails in their mouths: they were thrown out to sea with the lobsters, fell a long way, and their tails got stuck.
Who acts: Gryphon, whitings · What happens: explain, have, throw out, fall, get · To what, where: tails, mouths, turtles, sea, long way · 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 (Gryphon, whitings), 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 | 3 explains | nsubj |
| 3 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 seriously | punct |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 seriously | advmod |
| 6 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 3 explains | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 have | advmod |
| 9 | whitings | whiting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 explains | ccomp |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tails | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 mouths | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 thrown | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thrown | aux:pass |
| 19 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 explains | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 thrown | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thrown | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 lobsters | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lobsters | det |
| 25 | lobsters | lobster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thrown | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fell | punct |
| 27 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thrown | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 29 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 way | amod |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 stuck | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fell | cc |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 tails | nmod:poss |
| 34 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 stuck | nsubj |
| 35 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fell | conj |
| 36 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 got | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 explains | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | present | the Gryphon | seriously property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | present | whitings | turtles's tails | turtles's mouths | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | |||
| 3 | throw out | past · passive | turtles = turtle | sea | with the lobsters; out property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme to sea=Destination | |||
| 4 | fall | past | a long way | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient way=Result | |||||
| 5 | get | past | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:7.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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