Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 10
Alice asks for a song instead, and the Mock Turtle, choking with sobs, sings «Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen!» — a sad song about soup, from a creature that soup is made of.
Who acts: Alice, Mock Turtle, Beautiful Soup · What happens: ask, choke, sing, wait, make · To what, where: Beautiful Soup, hot tureen, soup · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)» 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 (Alice, Mock Turtle, Beautiful Soup), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 song | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 song | det |
| 5 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obl |
| 6 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 2 asks | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sings | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sings | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Turtle | det |
| 10 | Mock | mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Turtle | compound |
| 11 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sings | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 choking | punct |
| 13 | choking | choke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Turtle | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sobs | case |
| 15 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 choking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sings | punct |
| 17 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | conj |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 Soup | punct |
| 19 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Soup | amod |
| 20 | Soup | Soup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sings | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rich | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 rich | advmod |
| 23 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Soup | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 green | cc |
| 25 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rich | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Waiting | punct |
| 27 | Waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 Soup | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 tureen | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 tureen | det |
| 30 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tureen | amod |
| 31 | tureen | tureen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Waiting | obl |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 Soup | punct |
| 34 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 song | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 song | det |
| 36 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 song | amod |
| 37 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Soup | appos |
| 38 | about | about | ADP | _ | 39 soup | case |
| 39 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 song | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 creature | punct |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 creature | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 creature | det |
| 43 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 song | nmod |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 made | obl |
| 45 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 made | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 made | aux:pass |
| 47 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 creature | acl:relcl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 that | case |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Alice | for a song; instead property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | choke | gerund | the Mock Turtle not said here | with sobs | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sob=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present | the Mock Turtle | Beautiful Soup | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location soup=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wait in a quote | gerund | Beautiful Soup not said here | a hot tureen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tureen=Location | ||||
| 5 | make | present · passive | soup | of a creature | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:10.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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