--- title: “If I’d been the whiting,” said Alice, whose thoughts were still run… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “If I’d been the whiting,” said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on the song, “I’d have said to the porpoise, ‘Keep back, please: we don’t want _you_ with us!’” Who acts: Alice, thoughts, we. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/79/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/) / [Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/) / 79 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 79 “If I’d been the whiting,” said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on the song, “I’d have said to the porpoise, ‘Keep back, please: we don’t want \_you\_ with us!’” **Who acts:** Alice, thoughts, we · **What happens:** be, say, run, keep back, not want · **To what, where:** Alice, song, porpoise, you · **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, thoughts, we), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11:11:79 # text = “If I’d been the whiting,” said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on the song, “I’d have said to the porpoise, ‘Keep back, please: we don’t want _you_ with us!’” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’d have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 been be VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 whiting whiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’d would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux _ _ 26 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 porpoise porpoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 33 back back ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 35 please please INTJ UH _ 32 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 36 : : PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 37 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 39 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 want want VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 41 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 40 punct _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ” " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · passive | | Alice | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **run** | past · progressive | thoughts | | | the song | still | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on song=Trajectory | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | would · perfect | Alice | | the porpoise | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to porpoise=Recipient | | 5 | **keep back** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/80/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X. 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