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title: Her head is so full of the Lobster Quadrille that the poem comes out… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her head is so full of the Lobster Quadrille that the poem comes out as nonsense about a lobster who has been «baked too brown» and must «sugar his hair». Who acts: head, poem. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Sou
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 6

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Her head is so full of the Lobster Quadrille that the poem comes out as nonsense about a lobster who has been «baked too brown» and must «sugar his hair».

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**Who acts:** head, poem · **What happens:** be, come out, bake, sugar · **To what, where:** lobster, hair

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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 (head, poem), 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:6
# text = Her head is so full of the Lobster Quadrille that the poem comes out as nonsense about a lobster who has been «baked too brown» and must «sugar his hair».
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
8	Lobster	Lobster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	Quadrille	Quadrille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lobster	lobster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	sugar	sugar	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Alice's head |  |  |  |  | of Lobster; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come out** | present | the poem |  |  |  |  | as nonsense about a lobster | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **bake** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | a lobster |  |  |  | brown *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **sugar** *in a quote* | must |  | poem's hair |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hair=Destination |

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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:6`.

**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, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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