Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 80

“They were obliged to have him with them,” the Mock Turtle said: “no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”

Who acts: Mock Turtle, wise fish · What happens: oblige, have, say, go · To what, where: thoughts, whiting · 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 (Mock Turtle, wise fish), 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	_	4 obliged	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 obliged	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obliged	aux:pass
4	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obliged	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 obliged	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 obliged	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Turtle	det
13	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Turtle	compound
14	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 fish	det
19	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fish	amod
20	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
23	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 go	advmod
24	without	without	ADP	_	26 porpoise	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 porpoise	det
26	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	oblige in a quote	past · passive		thoughts = thought		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	have in a quote	to-infinitive		whiting	with thoughts = thought	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the Mock Turtle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go in a quote	would	no wise fish		without a porpoise; anywhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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