Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 1

She says she can only tell them from this morning: «it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then».

Who acts: Alice, it, use · What happens: say, tell, be, go back · To what, where: adventures, use, different person · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Alice, it, use), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 morning	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 use	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 use	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 use	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 use	det
16	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
17	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 use	acl
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 going	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 yesterday	case
20	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 back	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 person	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 person	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 person	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 person	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 person	det
26	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 person	amod
27	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	advcl
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 person	advmod
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 use	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	can	Alice		adventures = adventure	morning	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present	it	no use			tree rules
4	go back in a quote	gerund	no use not said here				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	is a in a quote	past	Alice	a different person		then	tree rules

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:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:1.

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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