--- title: To show Alice, they dance round and round her, treading on her toes,… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: To show Alice, they dance round and round her, treading on her toes, while the Mock Turtle sings, slowly and sadly, «Will you walk a little faster?» said a whiting to a snail. Who acts: creatures, Mock Turtle, snail, whiting. 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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 (creatures, Mock Turtle, snail, whiting), 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:3 # text = To show Alice, they dance round and round her, treading on her toes, while the Mock Turtle sings, slowly and sadly, «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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 3 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 dance dance VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 parataxis _ _ 7 round round ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 9 round round ADV RB _ 7 conj _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 treading tread VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Mock mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 sings sing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 sadly sadly ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 28 Will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 parataxis _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 33 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:xcomp 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 36 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 whiting whiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 snail snail NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | to-infinitive | creatures *= creature* *not said here* | | Alice | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient | | 2 | **dance** | present | creatures *= creature* | Alice | | | | round *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tread** | gerund | creatures *= creature* *not said here* | | | Alice's toes | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the Mock Turtle | | | | | slowly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 5 | **walk** *in a quote* | future | a snail *= snail* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | a whiting | | a snail | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to snail=Recipient clause=Topic | 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:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/2/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/)