--- title: Alice asks for a song instead, and the Mock Turtle, choking with sob… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice asks for a song instead, and the Mock Turtle, choking with sobs, sings «Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen!» — a sad song about soup, from a creature that soup is made of. Who acts: Alice, Mock Turtle, Beautiful Soup. 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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 (Alice, Mock Turtle, Beautiful Soup), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:10 # text = Alice asks for a song instead, and the Mock Turtle, choking with sobs, sings «Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen!» — a sad song about soup, from a creature that soup is made of. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 instead instead ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Mock mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 choking choke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 sobs sob NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 sings sing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 Beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 Soup Soup PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 acl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 tureen tureen NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 34 — - PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 38 about about ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:appos 44 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 obl _ _ 45 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 acl:relcl _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Alice | | | | | for a song; instead *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **choke** | gerund | the Mock Turtle *not said here* | | | | | with sobs | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sob=Theme | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the Mock Turtle | Beautiful Soup | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location soup=Theme | | 4 | **wait** *in a quote* | gerund | Beautiful Soup *not said here* | | | a hot tureen | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tureen=Location | | 5 | **make** | present · passive | | soup | | | | of a creature | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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 2…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/9/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/)