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title: The song: «"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail. — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics
description: The song: «"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail. Who acts: you, song. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 17

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The song: «"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail.

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**Who acts:** you, song · **What happens:** walk, say · **To what, where:** faster, snail · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, song), 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:17
# text = The song: «"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	«	«	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod
11	faster	faster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	whiting	whiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | future | you | faster |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme faster=Trajectory |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the song and « |  | a snail |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to snail=Recipient |

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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.

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**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:17`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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