Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 25
No accounting for tastes!» (= people like strange things), and asks the Mock Turtle to sing «Turtle Soup».
Who acts: Mock Turtle · What happens: ask, sing · To what, where: Mock Turtle, Turtle Soup
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), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 accounting | det |
| 2 | accounting | accounting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 tastes | case |
| 4 | tastes | taste | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 accounting | nmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 accounting | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 accounting | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 people | punct |
| 8 | = | = | SYM | _ | 9 people | punct |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 accounting | parataxis |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 11 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 people | nmod |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 things | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asks | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asks | cc |
| 16 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 accounting | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Turtle | det |
| 18 | Mock | mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Turtle | compound |
| 19 | Turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asks | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 sing | mark |
| 21 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asks | xcomp |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 Soup | punct |
| 23 | Turtle | turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Soup | flat |
| 24 | Soup | Soup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sing | obj |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 Soup | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 accounting | 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 in a quote | present | the Mock Turtle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent turtle=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Mock Turtle not said here | Turtle Soup | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location soup=Theme |
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:25.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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