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title: «Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen!» A ture… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen!» A tureen is a big deep dish for serving soup; «pennyworth» means as much as a penny buys; in the book the line is printed «two p / ennyworth», with the word split across two lines. Who acts: Beautiful Soup, tureen, big deep dish, pennywor
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 26

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«Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen!» A tureen is a big deep dish for serving soup; «pennyworth» means as much as a penny buys; in the book the line is printed «two p / ennyworth», with the word split across two lines.

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**Who acts:** Beautiful Soup, tureen, big deep dish, pennyworth, penny · **What happens:** wait, be, serve, mean, buy, print · **To what, where:** hot tureen, big deep dish, soup, much, line, book

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)» 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 (Beautiful Soup, tureen, big deep dish, pennyworth), 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:26
# text = «Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen!» A tureen is a big deep dish for serving soup; «pennyworth» means as much as a penny buys; in the book the line is printed «two p / ennyworth», with the word split across two lines.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_
2	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Soup	Soup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tureen	tureen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
17	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tureen	tureen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
26	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
29	pennyworth	pennyworth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
31	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obj	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	buys	buy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
46	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	_
47	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	/	/	SYM	,	_	51	cc	_	_
50	ennyworth	ennyworth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=51:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
51	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	advcl	_	_
57	across	across	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	59	nummod	_	_
59	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	_
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **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 |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a tureen | a big deep dish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **serve** | gerund | a big deep dish *not said here* | soup |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Attribute |
| 4 | **mean** | present | pennyworth | much |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Topic |
| 5 | **buy** | present | a penny |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **print** | present · passive |  | the line |  | the book |  | two p *obl* | tree rules |
| 7 | **split** | participle · passive |  | the word |  | two lines |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:26`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×4. **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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