Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 12

Alice: «I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning... but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.»

Who acts: Alice, adventures, Gryphon, use, my · What happens: tell, begin, be, go back, adventure · To what, where: adventures, you, 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, adventures, Gryphon, 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 adventures	nmod:poss
9	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obj
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 beginning	punct
11	beginning	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 adventures	acl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 morning	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 morning	det
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beginning	obl
15	...	...	PUNCT	_	20 use	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 use	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 use	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 use	cop
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 use	det
20	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	conj
21	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 use	acl
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 going	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 yesterday	case
24	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 going	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 person	punct
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 person	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 person	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 person	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 person	det
30	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 person	amod
31	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 use	advcl
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 tell	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	could	Alice	my adventures	you	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient adventure=Topic
2	begin in a quote	gerund	my adventures not said here			morning	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is a in a quote	present	Gryphon	no use			tree rules
4	go back in a quote	gerund	no use not said here			yesterday	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	is a in a quote	past	the Gryphon = gryphon	a different person			tree rules
6	adventure in a quote		my				nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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:12.

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.

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