Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 13

The Mock Turtle says «Explain all that»; the Gryphon says «No, no!

Who acts: Mock Turtle, Gryphon · What happens: say, explain · To what, where: that · 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 (Mock Turtle, Gryphon), 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	3 Turtle	det
2	Mock	mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Turtle	compound
3	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 Explain	punct
6	Explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 that	det:predet
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 Explain	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 Explain	punct
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Gryphon	det
12	Gryphon	gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
15	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	13 says	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 no	punct
17	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 says	ccomp
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Mock Turtle		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	explain speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		that	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic
3	say speech: assert	present	the Gryphon		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:13.

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): R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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