--- title: «No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise» — porpoise (a se… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: «No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise» — porpoise (a sea animal like a small dolphin) sounds like purpose (a reason); «I mean what I say,» says the Mock Turtle; Alice, still thinking of the song, says that if she had been the whiting she would have told the porpoise «Keep back, please: --- [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-1/26/) [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/) / 26 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 26 «No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise» — porpoise (a sea animal like a small dolphin) sounds like purpose (a reason); «I mean what I say,» says the Mock Turtle; Alice, still thinking of the song, says that if she had been the whiting she would have told the porpoise «Keep back, please: we don't want you with us!» **Who acts:** wise fish, porpoise, Mock Turtle, Alice, we · **What happens:** go, sound, mean, say, think, be · **To what, where:** porpoise, whiting, you · **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 (wise fish, porpoise, Mock Turtle, Alice), 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:26 # text = «No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise» — porpoise (a sea animal like a small dolphin) sounds like purpose (a reason); «I mean what I say,» says the Mock Turtle; Alice, still thinking of the song, says that if she had been the whiting she would have told the porpoise «Keep back, please: we don't want you with us!» # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 3 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 7 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 6 advmod _ _ 8 without without ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 10 porpoise porpoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:compound 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 12 — - PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 13 porpoise porpoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 23 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 34 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 33 obj _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 39 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 Mock mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 42 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 43 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:appos 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 still still ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 conj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 52 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 53 that that SCONJ IN _ 63 mark _ _ 54 if if SCONJ IN _ 59 mark _ _ 55 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 56 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 59 aux _ _ 57 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 59 cop _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 whiting whiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 advcl _ _ 60 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 61 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 63 aux _ _ 62 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 63 aux _ _ 63 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 52 ccomp _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 porpoise porpoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 iobj _ _ 66 « « PUNCT `` _ 67 punct _ _ 67 Keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 63 conj _ _ 68 back back ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 69 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 70 please please INTJ UH _ 75 discourse _ _ 71 : : PUNCT : _ 75 punct _ _ 72 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 75 nsubj _ _ 73 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 75 aux _ _ 74 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 75 advmod _ _ 75 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 ccomp _ _ 76 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 75 obj _ _ 77 with with ADP IN _ 78 case _ _ 78 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 75 obl _ _ 79 ! ! PUNCT . _ 52 punct _ _ 80 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=narrate, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | would | no wise fish | a porpoise | | | | anywhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sound** | present | porpoise | | | | | like purpose | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | the Mock Turtle *= turtle* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the Mock Turtle *= turtle* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Mock Turtle | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the Mock Turtle *not said here* | | | | still | of the song | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Alice | the whiting | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would · perfect | Alice | | the porpoise | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent porpoise=Recipient | | 10 | **keep back** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **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. **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:26`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/24/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/)