Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense, sentence 9

The Mock Turtle says no wise fish would go anywhere without a «porpoise», which sounds like «purpose».

Who acts: Mock Turtle, wise fish, « porpoise · What happens: say, go, sound · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense» of the language 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 (Mock Turtle, wise fish, « porpoise), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Turtle	det
2	Mock	mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Turtle	compound
3	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 fish	det
6	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 go	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
10	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 go	advmod
11	without	without	ADP	_	14 porpoise	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 porpoise	det
13	«	«	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 porpoise	compound
14	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 porpoise	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sounds	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sounds	nsubj
18	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 porpoise	acl:relcl
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 purpose	case
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 purpose	punct
21	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sounds	obl
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 purpose	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Mock Turtle		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	would	no wise fish	without a « porpoise; anywhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sound	present	a « porpoise	like purpose	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:language:041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.lesson:9.

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): R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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