--- title: Cooks in Alice's time served whiting curled with the tail in its mou… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: Cooks in Alice's time served whiting curled with the tail in its mouth and covered in breadcrumbs; the Mock Turtle says the crumbs «would all wash off in the sea». Who acts: Cooks, Mock Turtle, crumbs. 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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 (Cooks, Mock Turtle, crumbs), 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:22 # text = Cooks in Alice's time served whiting curled with the tail in its mouth and covered in breadcrumbs; the Mock Turtle says the crumbs «would all wash off in the sea». # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Cooks cook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 3 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 6 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 whiting white NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 curled curl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 breadcrumbs breadcrumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 Mock mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 crumbs crumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obj 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 all all ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:acl:relcl 30 off off ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:det 33 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 35 . . 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 | **serve** | past | Cooks in Alice's time | whiting | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent white=Attribute | | 2 | **curl** | participle | | whiting *not said here* | | | | with the tail in whiting's mouth | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **cover** | participle | | | | | | in breadcrumbs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in breadcrumb=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Mock Turtle | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **wash off** *in a quote* | would | the crumbs | | | the sea | | all *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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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