Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 23
The Gryphon asks «Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?
Who acts: Gryphon, we · What happens: ask, try, figure · To what, where: figure, Lobster Quadrille · 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 (Gryphon, we), 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 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
| 5 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 try | aux |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 try | nsubj |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asks | ccomp |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 figure | det |
| 9 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 try | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Quadrille | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Quadrille | det |
| 12 | Lobster | Lobster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Quadrille | compound |
| 13 | Quadrille | Quadrille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 figure | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | the Gryphon | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | try in a quote | shall | we | another figure of the Lobster Quadrille | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | figure in a quote | the Lobster Quadrille | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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.
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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 ×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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