--- title: Alice: «I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning..… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice: «I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning... but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.» Who acts: Alice, adventures, Gryphon, 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, adventures, Gryphon, 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:12 # text = Alice: «I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning... but 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 — - PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 beginning begin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ... ... PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp 21 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 22 back back ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 yesterday yesterday NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 advcl _ _ 32 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | could | Alice | my adventures | you | | then | | 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 | my adventures *not said here* | | | | morning | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Gryphon | no use | | | | | tree rules | | 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 | the Gryphon *= gryphon* | a different person | | | | | 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. **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. 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