Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 6
Her head is so full of the Lobster Quadrille that the poem comes out as nonsense about a lobster who has been «baked too brown» and must «sugar his hair».
Who acts: head, poem · What happens: be, come out, bake, sugar · To what, where: lobster, hair
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 (head, poem), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 head | nmod:poss |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 full | advmod |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Lobster | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Quadrille | det |
| 8 | Lobster | Lobster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 full | obl |
| 9 | Quadrille | Quadrille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lobster | flat |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 comes | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 poem | det |
| 12 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 comes | compound:prt |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 nonsense | case |
| 16 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | obl |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 lobster | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lobster | det |
| 19 | lobster | lobster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nonsense | nmod |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 baked | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 baked | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 baked | aux:pass |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 baked | punct |
| 24 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 lobster | acl:relcl |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 brown | advmod |
| 26 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 baked | xcomp |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 baked | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sugar | cc |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 sugar | aux |
| 30 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 sugar | punct |
| 31 | sugar | sugar | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 baked | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hair | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sugar | obj |
| 34 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 sugar | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Alice's head | of Lobster; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come out | present | the poem | as nonsense about a lobster | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bake in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a lobster | brown property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | sugar in a quote | must | poem's hair | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hair=Destination |
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:6.
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. 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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