--- title: “Of course not,” said the Mock Turtle: “why, if a fish came to _me_,… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “Of course not,” said the Mock Turtle: “why, if a fish came to _me_, and told me he was going a journey, I should say ‘With what porpoise?’” Who acts: Mock Turtle, fish, Turtle. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, with its dependency t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/82/) [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/) / 82 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 82 “Of course not,” said the Mock Turtle: “why, if a fish came to \_me\_, and told me he was going a journey, I should say ‘With what porpoise?’” **Who acts:** Mock Turtle, fish, Turtle · **What happens:** not say, come, \_, tell, go, say · **To what, where:** Mock Turtle, journey, porpoise · **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 (Mock Turtle, fish, Turtle), 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:pg11:11:82 # text = “Of course not,” said the Mock Turtle: “why, if a fish came to _me_, and told me he was going a journey, I should say ‘With what porpoise?’” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 fixed _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Mock Mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 _ _ VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 ccomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 36 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 With with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 obl _ _ 39 porpoise porpoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ? ? PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Mock Turtle | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | a fish | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **\_** *in a quote* | infinitive | a fish *not said here* | the Mock Turtle *= turtle* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | a fish *not said here* | | the Mock Turtle *= turtle* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | past · progressive | Turtle | a journey | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location journey=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | should | the Mock Turtle *= turtle* | porpoise | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent porpoise=Topic | 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 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/83/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X. 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