Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 16

They stay quiet until she reaches «You are old, Father William» coming out different; the Mock Turtle says «That's very curious».

Who acts: explanations, Turtle, You, Mock Turtle, That · What happens: stay, reach, be, come out, say · 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 (explanations, Turtle, You, Mock Turtle), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stay	nsubj
2	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stay	xcomp
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 reaches	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reaches	nsubj
6	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stay	advcl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
8	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 old	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reaches	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
12	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 old	vocative
13	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Father	flat
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
15	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 reaches	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 coming	compound:prt
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 coming	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Turtle	det
20	Mock	mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Turtle	compound
21	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 says	nsubj
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reaches	conj
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 curious	punct
24	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 curious	nsubj
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 curious	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 curious	advmod
27	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 says	ccomp
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 curious	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stay	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stay	present	explanations = explanation	quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	present	Turtle		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	You	Father vocative; old property	tree rules
4	come out	gerund	Turtle not said here	different property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: assert	present	the Mock Turtle		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	That	curious property	tree rules

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:16.

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, 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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