--- title: «What is the use of repeating all that stuff, if you don't explain i… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: «What is the use of repeating all that stuff, if you don't explain it as you go on?» says the Mock Turtle: «It's by far the most confusing thing I ever heard!», and the Gryphon lets her stop. Who acts: use, you, Mock Turtle, stuff. 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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 (use, you, Mock Turtle, stuff), 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:22 # text = «What is the use of repeating all that stuff, if you don't explain it as you go on?» says the Mock Turtle: «It's by far the most confusing thing I ever heard!», and the Gryphon lets her stop. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 repeating repeat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 8 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 10 det _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 9 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 21 on on ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 ? ? PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 24 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Mock mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 30 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 31 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 obl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 36 advmod _ _ 36 confusing confusing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 ccomp _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 40 advmod _ _ 40 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 42 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 Gryphon gryphon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=47:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 47 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 48 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 xcomp _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | the use | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **repeat** *in a quote* | gerund | the use *not said here* | all stuff | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **explain** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | you | stuff | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | the Mock Turtle | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | stuff | the confusing thing | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **hear** *in a quote* | past | the Mock Turtle *= turtle* | the confusing thing *not said here* | | | ever | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 8 | **let** | present | the Gryphon | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **stop** | infinitive | Turtle | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:22`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/21/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/)