--- title: Then the two creatures excitedly explain the Lobster Quadrille, a se… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the two creatures excitedly explain the Lobster Quadrille, a seaside dance: two lines of seals, turtles and salmon, each with a lobster for a partner — and then you throw the lobsters as far out to sea as you can! Who acts: two creatures, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two creatures, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.lesson:1 # text = Then the two creatures excitedly explain the Lobster Quadrille, a seaside dance: two lines of seals, turtles and salmon, each with a lobster for a partner — and then you throw the lobsters as far out to sea as you can! # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 excitedly excitedly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 explain explain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Lobster Lobster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Quadrille Quadrille PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 seaside seaside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:appos 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 salmon salmon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 lobster lobster NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 partner partner NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 — — PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 throw throw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 lobsters lobster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 as as ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 40 advmod _ _ 40 out out ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 43 as as SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | the two creatures | the Lobster Quadrille | | | then | excitedly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quadrille=Topic | | 2 | **throw** | present | you | the lobsters | | | then | out *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lobster=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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