Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 3

When she gets to the part where «You are old, Father William» came out all wrong for the Caterpillar, the Mock Turtle wants to hear her try again.

Who acts: Alice, You, Father, Mock Turtle · What happens: get, be, come out, want, hear, try

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 (Alice, You, Father, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 gets	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 wants	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 part	det
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 came	advmod
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 old	punct
9	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 old	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 old	cop
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gets	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 old	punct
13	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
14	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Father	flat
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 Father	punct
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 part	acl:relcl
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 wrong	advmod
19	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 came	xcomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 Caterpillar	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Caterpillar	det
22	Caterpillar	caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wants	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Turtle	det
25	Mock	mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Turtle	compound
26	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 wants	nsubj
27	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	to	to	PART	_	29 hear	mark
29	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wants	xcomp
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 try	nsubj
31	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 hear	xcomp
32	again	again	ADV	_	31 try	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 wants	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Alice		to the part result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to part=Result
2	is in a quote	present	You		old property	tree rules
3	come out	past	Father		for the Caterpillar; out, wrong property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	want	present	the Mock Turtle			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Mock Turtle not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	try	infinitive	Alice	again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:3.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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