Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 26

«No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise» — porpoise (a sea animal like a small dolphin) sounds like purpose (a reason); «I mean what I say,» says the Mock Turtle; Alice, still thinking of the song, says that if she had been the whiting she would have told the porpoise «Keep back, please: we don't want you with us!»

Who acts: wise fish, porpoise, Mock Turtle, Alice, we · What happens: go, sound, mean, say, think, be · To what, where: porpoise, whiting, you · 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 (wise fish, porpoise, Mock Turtle, Alice), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
2	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 fish	det
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fish	amod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 porpoise	advcl
7	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 go	advmod
8	without	without	ADP	_	11 »	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 porpoise	det
10	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
13	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sounds	nsubj
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 animal	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 animal	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 animal	compound
17	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 porpoise	appos
18	like	like	ADP	_	21 dolphin	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dolphin	det
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dolphin	amod
21	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 animal	nmod
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 animal	punct
23	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	like	like	ADP	_	25 purpose	case
25	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sounds	obl
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	28 reason	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 reason	det
28	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 purpose	appos
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	28 reason	punct
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 mean	punct
31	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 mean	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 mean	nsubj
33	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sounds	parataxis
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 mean	obj
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 say	nsubj
36	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 what	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 says	punct
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	39 says	punct
39	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sounds	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Turtle	det
41	Mock	mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Turtle	compound
42	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 says	nsubj
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 Alice	punct
44	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 says	nsubj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 thinking	punct
46	still	still	ADV	_	47 thinking	advmod
47	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 Turtle	conj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 song	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 song	det
50	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 thinking	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 says	punct
52	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sounds	parataxis
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	63 told	mark
54	if	if	SCONJ	_	59 whiting	mark
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 whiting	nsubj
56	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 whiting	aux
57	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	59 whiting	cop
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 whiting	det
59	whiting	whiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 told	advcl
60	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 told	nsubj
61	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 told	aux
62	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	63 told	aux
63	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 says	ccomp
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 porpoise	det
65	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 told	iobj
66	«	«	PUNCT	_	67 Keep	punct
67	Keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 told	conj
68	back	back	ADV	_	67 Keep	advmod
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 told	punct
70	please	please	INTJ	_	75 want	discourse
71	:	:	PUNCT	_	75 want	punct
72	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	75 want	nsubj
73	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	75 want	aux
74	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	75 want	advmod
75	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 says	ccomp
76	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	75 want	obj
77	with	with	ADP	_	78 us	case
78	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	75 want	obl
79	!	!	PUNCT	_	52 says	punct
80	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 sounds	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=narrate, polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	would	no wise fish	a porpoise			anywhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sound	present	porpoise				like purpose	tree rules
3	mean in a quote	present	the Mock Turtle = turtle					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the Mock Turtle = turtle					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	present	the Mock Turtle					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	gerund	the Mock Turtle not said here			still	of the song	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: express	present	Alice					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Alice	the whiting				tree rules
9	tell speech: assert	would · perfect	Alice		the porpoise			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent porpoise=Recipient
10	keep back in a quote	infinitive	Alice not said here					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
11	not want in a quote	present · do-support	we	you			with us	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme

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: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 ×3, 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.

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