Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 26

«Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen!» A tureen is a big deep dish for serving soup; «pennyworth» means as much as a penny buys; in the book the line is printed «two p / ennyworth», with the word split across two lines.

Who acts: Beautiful Soup, tureen, big deep dish, pennyworth, penny · What happens: wait, be, serve, mean, buy, print · To what, where: hot tureen, big deep dish, soup, much, line, book

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 (Beautiful Soup, tureen, big deep dish, pennyworth), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 Soup	punct
2	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Soup	amod
3	Soup	Soup	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rich	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rich	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 rich	advmod
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 green	cc
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rich	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Waiting	punct
10	Waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Soup	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 tureen	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tureen	det
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tureen	amod
14	tureen	tureen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Waiting	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 Waiting	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 Waiting	punct
17	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tureen	det
18	tureen	tureen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dish	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 dish	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dish	det
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dish	amod
22	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dish	amod
23	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rich	conj
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 serving	mark
25	serving	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 dish	acl
26	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 serving	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 means	punct
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 pennyworth	punct
29	pennyworth	pennyworth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 means	nsubj
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 pennyworth	punct
31	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rich	parataxis
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 means	obj
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 buys	mark
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 penny	det
36	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 buys	nsubj
37	buys	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 much	advcl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 printed	punct
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 book	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 book	det
41	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 printed	obl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 line	det
43	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 printed	nsubj:pass
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 printed	aux:pass
45	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rich	parataxis
46	«	«	PUNCT	_	45 printed	punct
47	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 p	nummod
48	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 printed	obl
49	/	/	SYM	_	51 »	cc
50	ennyworth	ennyworth	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 printed	obj
51	»	»	PUNCT	_	50 ennyworth	punct
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 split	punct
53	with	with	ADP	_	56 split	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 word	det
55	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 split	nsubj:pass
56	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 printed	advcl
57	across	across	ADP	_	59 lines	case
58	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 lines	nummod
59	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 split	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rich	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait in a quote	gerund	Beautiful Soup not said here		a hot tureen		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tureen=Location
2	is a	present	a tureen	a big deep dish			tree rules
3	serve	gerund	a big deep dish not said here	soup			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Attribute
4	mean	present	pennyworth	much			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Topic
5	buy	present	a penny				vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	print	present · passive		the line	the book	two p obl	tree rules
7	split	participle · passive		the word	two lines		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

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:26.

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 ×4. 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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