Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 86

“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly: “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

Who acts: Alice, use, my · What happens: tell, begin, say, go back, be, adventure · To what, where: adventures, you, different person · 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, use, my), 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 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 adventures	nmod:poss
7	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obj
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 beginning	punct
9	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tell	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 morning	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 morning	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beginning	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 little	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 timidly	obl:unmarked
19	timidly	timidly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	xcomp
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 ’s	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 ’s	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 ’s	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ’s	nsubj
24	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 person	advcl
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 use	det
26	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ’s	obj
27	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 use	acl
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 going	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 yesterday	case
30	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 going	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 person	punct
32	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 person	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 person	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 person	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 person	det
36	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 person	amod
37	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 person	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 person	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 person	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	could	Alice	my adventures	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient adventure=Topic
2	begin in a quote	gerund	Alice not said here			morning		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	Alice				timidly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go back in a quote	gerund	no use not said here			yesterday		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	is a in a quote	past	Alice	a different person		then		tree rules
6	adventure in a quote		my					nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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