Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 82

“Of course not,” said the Mock Turtle: “why, if a fish came to _me_, and told me he was going a journey, I should say ‘With what porpoise?’”

Who acts: Mock Turtle, fish, Turtle · What happens: not say, come, _, tell, go, say · To what, where: Mock Turtle, journey, porpoise · 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, fish, Turtle), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Of	of	ADP	_	4 not	case
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Of	fixed
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 not	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 not	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Turtle	det
9	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Turtle	compound
10	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 why	punct
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 said	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fish	det
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 say	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 _	case
20	_	_	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 came	xcomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 _	obj
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 _	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 going	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 going	aux
29	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 told	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 journey	det
31	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 going	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 say	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 say	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 say	aux
35	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	39 porpoise	punct
37	With	with	ADP	_	38 what	case
38	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 porpoise	obl
39	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 say	obj
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	39 porpoise	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	39 porpoise	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	39 porpoise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not say speech: ask	past	the Mock Turtle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	a fish			tree rules
3	_ in a quote	infinitive	a fish not said here	the Mock Turtle = turtle		tree rules
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	a fish not said here		the Mock Turtle = turtle	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go in a quote	past · progressive	Turtle	a journey		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location journey=Theme
6	say speech: assert in a quote	should	the Mock Turtle = turtle	porpoise		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent porpoise=Topic

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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