--- title: [later editions continued as follows When the sands are all dry, he… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: [later editions continued as follows When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.] Who acts: sands, editions, tide, sharks. A sentence of «Alice's Adventur --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/103/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/) / [Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/) / 103 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 103 \[later editions continued as follows When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.\] **Who acts:** sands, editions, tide, sharks, voice · **What happens:** continue, follow, be, talk, rise, have · **To what, where:** editions, contemptuous tones, timid sound, Shark This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sands, editions, tide, sharks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11:11:103 # text = [later editions continued as follows When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.] 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 3 editions edition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 4 continued continue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 7 When when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sands sand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 all all ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 gay gay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 lark lark NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 And and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 talk talk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 contemptuous contemptuous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Shark Shark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 31 But but CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 when when SCONJ WRB _ 36 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 advcl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 around around ADV RB _ 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 46 timid timid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 tremulous tremulous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 conj _ _ 49 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** | participle | | editions *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **follow** | present | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the sands | | | | | all, dry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | editions | | | | | as a lark; gay *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **talk** | future | | | | contemptuous tones of the Shark | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **rise** | present | the tide | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | sharks | | | | | around *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **have** | present | Tis's voice | a timid sound | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | | 9 | **intonate** | | | the Shark | | | | | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/104/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/)