--- title: Then «you throw the— The lobsters!— as far out to sea as you can», s… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: Then «you throw the— The lobsters!— as far out to sea as you can», swim after them, turn a somersault, change lobsters again, and come back to land: «that's all the first figure»; to show Alice they dance it with no lobsters at all: «We can do without lobsters, you know.» Who acts: you, that, turtle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/) / 16 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 16 Then «you throw the— The lobsters!— as far out to sea as you can», swim after them, turn a somersault, change lobsters again, and come back to land: «that's all the first figure»; to show Alice they dance it with no lobsters at all: «We can do without lobsters, you know.» **Who acts:** you, that, turtles, We · **What happens:** throw, swim, turn, change, come back, be · **To what, where:** the, somersault, lobsters, first figure, Alice, lobster · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise)» 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 (you, that, turtles, We), 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:16 # text = Then «you throw the— The lobsters!— as far out to sea as you can», swim after them, turn a somersault, change lobsters again, and come back to land: «that's all the first figure»; to show Alice they dance it with no lobsters at all: «We can do without lobsters, you know.» # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 throw throw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 obj _ _ 6 — - PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 lobsters lobster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 10 — - PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 11 as as ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 out out ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:MD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 21 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 somersault somersault NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 29 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 30 lobsters lobster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 again again ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 35 back back ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 39 « « PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 40 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 nsubj _ _ 41 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 42 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 45 det:predet _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 45 amod _ _ 45 figure figure NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 46 » » PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 47 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 advcl _ _ 50 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 51 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 dance dance VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 53 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ _ 54 with with ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 56 det _ _ 56 lobsters lobster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl _ _ 57 at at ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 56 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=56:obl 59 : : PUNCT : _ 52 punct _ _ 60 « « PUNCT `` _ 63 punct _ _ 61 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 62 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 63 aux _ _ 63 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 conj _ _ 64 without without ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 lobsters lobster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 obl _ _ 66 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 67 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 68 nsubj _ _ 68 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 63 parataxis _ _ 69 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 70 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw** *in a quote* | present | you | the | | | then | out *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **swim** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | after turtles *= turtle* | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a somersault | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme | | 4 | **change** | infinitive | you *not said here* | lobsters | | | again | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lobster=Patient | | 5 | **come back** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | all first figure | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **show** | to-infinitive | turtles *= turtle* *not said here* | | Alice | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient | | 8 | **dance** | present | turtles *= turtle* | lobster | | | | with no lobsters at all | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 9 | **do** *in a quote* | can | We | | | | | without lobsters | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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](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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.lesson:16`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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