--- title: Alice begins «I once tasted—» but checks herself and says «No, never… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice begins «I once tasted—» but checks herself and says «No, never» — she won't tell a turtle she has eaten lobster. Who acts: Alice, Mock Turtle. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise)» of the books course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/) / 13 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 13 Alice begins «I once tasted—» but checks herself and says «No, never» — she won't tell a turtle she has eaten lobster. **Who acts:** Alice, Mock Turtle · **What happens:** begin, taste, check, say, not tell, eat · **To what, where:** Alice, turtle, lobster · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, Mock Turtle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.lesson:13 # text = Alice begins «I once tasted—» but checks herself and says «No, never» — she won't tell a turtle she has eaten lobster. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 advmod _ _ 6 tasted taste VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 — - PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 13 ccomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 19 — - PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 lobster lobster NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **taste** *in a quote* | past | the Mock Turtle *= turtle* | | | | | once *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **check** | present | Alice *not said here* | Alice | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | future | Alice | a turtle | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent turtle=Recipient | | 6 | **eat** | present · perfect | Alice | lobster | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lobster=Patient | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.lesson:13`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/12/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/)