Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 11

In the middle of the chorus a cry rings out: «The trial's beginning!» The Gryphon grabs Alice's hand and runs, only ever answering «Come on!», while the sad words «Beautiful, beautiful Soup!» fade away behind them on the breeze.

Who acts: cry, Gryphon, sad words, trial · What happens: ring out, grab, run, answer, come on, fade away · To what, where: middle, hand, breeze · 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 (cry, Gryphon, sad words, trial), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rings	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 chorus	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chorus	det
6	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cry	det
8	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rings	nsubj
9	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 rings	compound:prt
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 rings	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 beginning	punct
13	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trial	det
14	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beginning	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 trial	case
16	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rings	parataxis
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 beginning	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 beginning	punct
19	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Gryphon	det
20	Gryphon	gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 grabs	nsubj
21	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rings	parataxis
22	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 hand	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Alice	case
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grabs	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 runs	cc
26	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 grabs	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 answering	punct
28	only	only	ADV	_	30 answering	advmod
29	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 answering	advmod
30	answering	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 runs	advcl
31	«	«	PUNCT	_	32 Come	punct
32	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 answering	obj
33	on	on	ADV	_	32 Come	advmod
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 Come	punct
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 Come	punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 answering	punct
37	while	while	SCONJ	_	48 fade	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 words	det
39	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 words	amod
40	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 fade	nsubj
41	«	«	PUNCT	_	45 Soup	punct
42	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Soup	amod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Beautiful	punct
44	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Soup	amod
45	Soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 words	appos
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	45 Soup	punct
47	»	»	PUNCT	_	45 Soup	punct
48	fade	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 answering	advcl
49	away	away	ADV	_	48 fade	advmod
50	behind	behind	ADP	_	51 them	case
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 fade	obl
52	on	on	ADP	_	54 breeze	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 breeze	det
54	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fade	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 rings	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring out	present	a cry		the middle of the chorus			tree rules
2	grab	present	the Gryphon	Alice's hand				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	run	present	the Gryphon not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	answer speech: express	gerund	the Gryphon not said here			ever		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come on in a quote	infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fade away	present	the sad words		the breeze		behind hands = hand; away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	begin in a quote		the trial					nom beginning «event transitive»: poss=agent

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:11.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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