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title: The Gryphon orders her to stand up and recite «'Tis the voice of the… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Gryphon orders her to stand up and recite «'Tis the voice of the sluggard». Who acts: Gryphon. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 4

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The Gryphon orders her to stand up and recite «'Tis the voice of the sluggard».

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**Who acts:** Gryphon · **What happens:** order, stand up, recite, it · **To what, where:** Alice, voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gryphon), 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:4
# text = The Gryphon orders her to stand up and recite «'Tis the voice of the sluggard».
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Gryphon	gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	orders	order	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	recite	recite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
12	Tis	it	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sluggard	sluggard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | present | the Gryphon |  | Alice |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stand up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Gryphon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **recite** | infinitive | the Gryphon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **it** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Gryphon *not said here* | the voice of the sluggard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/).

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