Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 5

“You may not have lived much under the sea—” (“I haven’t,” said Alice)—“and perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster—” (Alice began to say “I once tasted—” but checked herself hastily, and said “No, never”) “—so you can have no idea what a delightful thing a Lobster Quadrille is!”

Who acts: You, Alice, I · What happens: not live, not have, say, not introduce, begin, taste · To what, where: sea, you, Alice, idea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Alice, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 lived	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 lived	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 lived	aux
6	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	much	much	ADV	_	6 lived	advmod
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
17	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 have	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
21	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 introduced	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 introduced	cc
26	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	31 introduced	advmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 introduced	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 introduced	aux:pass
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 introduced	advmod
30	even	even	ADV	_	31 introduced	advmod
31	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lived	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 lobster	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 lobster	det
34	lobster	lobster	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 introduced	obl
35	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct
37	(	(	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct
38	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 began	nsubj
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	41 say	mark
41	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 began	xcomp
42	“	"	PUNCT	_	45 tasted	punct
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 tasted	nsubj
44	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	45 tasted	advmod
45	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 say	ccomp
46	—	-	PUNCT	_	45 tasted	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	45 tasted	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 checked	cc
49	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 tasted	conj
50	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	49 checked	obj
51	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	49 checked	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 said	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 said	cc
54	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 began	parataxis
55	“	"	PUNCT	_	59 ”	punct
56	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	59 ”	discourse
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 No	punct
58	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	59 ”	advmod
59	”	"	PUNCT	_	54 said	punct
60	)	)	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct
61	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct
62	—	-	PUNCT	_	66 have	punct
63	so	so	ADV	_	66 have	advmod
64	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	66 have	nsubj
65	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	66 have	aux
66	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lived	parataxis
67	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	68 idea	det
68	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 have	obj
69	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	66 have	obj
70	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	72 thing	det
71	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 thing	amod
72	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 what	nsubj
73	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	75 Quadrille	det
74	Lobster	Lobster	PROPN	Number=Sing	75 Quadrille	compound
75	Quadrille	Quadrille	PROPN	Number=Sing	72 thing	nmod
76	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	77 !	cop
77	!	!	PUNCT	_	75 Quadrille	punct
78	”	"	PUNCT	_	75 Quadrille	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not live in a quote	may · perfect	You		the sea		tree rules
2	not have in a quote	present	Alice				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not introduce in a quote	past · passive		you		to a lobster; perhaps property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to lobster=Co-Patient
5	begin	past	Alice				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Alice not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	taste in a quote	past	Alice			once property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	check	past	I not said here	Alice		hastily property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
9	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	have in a quote	can	you	no idea			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.

Text: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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