--- title: “I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said A… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly: “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” Who acts: Alice, use, my. 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/pg11/11/86/) [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/) / 86 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 86 “I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly: “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” **Who acts:** Alice, use, my · **What happens:** tell, begin, say, go back, be, adventure · **To what, where:** adventures, you, different person · **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, use, my), 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:pg11:11:86 # text = “I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly: “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 — - PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 beginning begin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 timidly timidly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 “ " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 25 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 26 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 28 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 yesterday yesterday NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 because because SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ _ 38 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | 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 | | | | 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 | Alice *not said here* | | | | morning | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice | | | | | timidly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 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 | Alice | a different person | | | then | | 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. **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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/87/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/)