Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 13

Alice begins «I once tasted—» but checks herself and says «No, never» — she won't tell a turtle she has eaten lobster.

Who acts: Alice, Mock Turtle · What happens: begin, taste, check, say, not tell, eat · To what, where: Alice, turtle, lobster · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise)» 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 (Alice, Mock Turtle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 begins	nsubj
2	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 tasted	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tasted	nsubj
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 tasted	advmod
6	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 begins	ccomp
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 tasted	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 tasted	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 checks	cc
10	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 begins	conj
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 checks	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 says	cc
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 checks	conj
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 No	punct
15	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	13 says	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 No	punct
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 No	advmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 No	punct
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
21	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 tell	advmod
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begins	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 turtle	det
25	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eaten	nsubj
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 eaten	aux
28	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 turtle	acl:relcl
29	lobster	lobster	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eaten	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begins	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	present	Alice			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	taste in a quote	past	the Mock Turtle = turtle		once property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	check	present	Alice not said here	Alice		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	Alice not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not tell speech: assert	future	Alice	a turtle		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent turtle=Recipient
6	eat	present · perfect	Alice	lobster		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lobster=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.

Licence: CC 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:13.

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): R6-punct-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.

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