--- title: The Gryphon's reason: they went with the lobsters to the dance, got… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: The Gryphon's reason: they went with the lobsters to the dance, got thrown out to sea, fell a long way, got their tails fast in their mouths, and couldn't get them out again. Who acts: turtles. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whitin --- [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-1/23/) [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/) / 23 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 23 The Gryphon's reason: they went with the lobsters to the dance, got thrown out to sea, fell a long way, got their tails fast in their mouths, and couldn't get them out again. **Who acts:** turtles · **What happens:** go, throw out, fall, get, not get out · **To what, where:** dance, sea, long way, tails, mouths, turtles 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 (turtles), 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:23 # text = The Gryphon's reason: they went with the lobsters to the dance, got thrown out to sea, fell a long way, got their tails fast in their mouths, and couldn't get them out again. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 Gryphon gryphon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 lobsters lobster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 15 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 out out PART RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 40 again again ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 41 . . 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 | **go** | past | turtles *= turtle* | | | the dance | | with the lobsters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dance=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **throw out** | past · passive | turtles *= turtle* *not said here* | | | sea | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: to sea=Destination | | 3 | **fall** | past | turtles *= turtle* *not said here* | a long way | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get** | past | turtles *= turtle* *not said here* | turtles's tails | | turtles's mouths | | fast *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **get out** | could | | turtles *= turtle* | | | again | | tree rules | 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:23`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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