--- title: The Gryphon orders «Stand up and repeat "'Tis the voice of the slugg… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: The Gryphon orders «Stand up and repeat "'Tis the voice of the sluggard"» (a sluggard is a lazy person; it was a real poem children learned by heart). Who acts: sluggard, children. 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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 (sluggard, children), 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:17 # text = The Gryphon orders «Stand up and repeat "'Tis the voice of the sluggard"» (a sluggard is a lazy person; it was a real poem children learned by heart). # 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): R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Gryphon gryphon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 5 Stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 repeat repeat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 10 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Tis Tis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sluggard sluggard NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sluggard sluggard NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|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 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ _ 32 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand up** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **repeat** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Tis | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tis=Eventuality | | 3 | **is a** | present | a sluggard | a lazy person | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | sluggard | a real poem | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **learn** | participle | children | a real poem *not said here* | | | | by heart | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=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. **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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