--- title: She says she can only tell them from this morning: «it's no use goin… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: She says she can only tell them from this morning: «it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then». Who acts: Alice, it, use. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, it, use), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:1 # text = She says she can only tell them from this morning: «it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.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 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 16 det _ _ 16 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 17 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 back back ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 yesterday yesterday NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 advcl _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | Alice | | adventures *= adventure* | | morning | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | it | no use | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go back** *in a quote* | gerund | no use *not said here* | | | | | | 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 | 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:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:1`. **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 2…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/0/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/)