--- title: “What a pity it wouldn’t stay!” sighed the Lory, as soon as it was q… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “What a pity it wouldn’t stay!” sighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter “Ah, my dear! Who acts: pity, old Crab, opportunity. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/75/) [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 III. A Caucus-Race and a Long…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/) / 75 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 75 “What a pity it wouldn’t stay!” sighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter “Ah, my dear! **Who acts:** pity, old Crab, opportunity · **What happens:** pity, not stay, sigh, be, take, say · **To what, where:** pity, Lory, sight, opportunity, daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pity, old Crab, opportunity), 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:pg11:4:75 # text = “What a pity it wouldn’t stay!” sighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter “Ah, my dear! 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 pity pity NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 7 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 11 sighed sigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Lory Lory PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 as as ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 20 quite quite ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 out out ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 Crab Crab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 opportunity opportunity NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 of of SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 “ " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 41 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pity** *in a quote* | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **stay** *in a quote* | would | pity | a pity *not said here* | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme pity=Location | | 3 | **sigh** | past | a pity | the Lory | | | | soon *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lory=Topic | | 4 | **is** | past | pity | | | sight | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | past | a old Crab | the opportunity | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | the opportunity *not said here* | | Crab's daughter | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/76/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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