Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 79
“If I’d been the whiting,” said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on the song, “I’d have said to the porpoise, ‘Keep back, please: we don’t want _you_ with us!’”
Who acts: Alice, thoughts, we · What happens: be, say, run, keep back, not want · To what, where: Alice, song, porpoise, you · 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 (Alice, thoughts, we), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 been | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 been | nsubj |
| 4 | ’d | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 been | aux:pass |
| 5 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 whiting | det |
| 7 | whiting | whiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 been | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 been | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 been | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 running | punct |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 14 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 running | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 running | aux |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 running | advmod |
| 17 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Alice | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 song | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 song | det |
| 20 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 running | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 24 | ’d | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | aux |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 said | aux |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 porpoise | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 porpoise | det |
| 29 | porpoise | porpoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 porpoise | punct |
| 31 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 Keep | punct |
| 32 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | conj |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 Keep | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Keep | punct |
| 35 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 32 Keep | discourse |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 want | punct |
| 37 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 want | nsubj |
| 38 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 want | aux |
| 39 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 want | advmod |
| 40 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 41 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 42 you | punct |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 want | obj |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 want | punct |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 us | case |
| 45 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 want | obl |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 want | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 want | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · passive | Alice | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | run | past · progressive | thoughts | the song | still | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on song=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | would · perfect | Alice | the porpoise | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to porpoise=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | keep back in a quote | infinitive | Alice not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | 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.
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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