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title: “Ah! then yours wasn’t a really good school,” said the Mock Turtle i… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ah! then yours wasn’t a really good school,” said the Mock Turtle in a tone of great relief. Who acts: yours, Mock Turtle. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 107

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“Ah! then yours wasn’t a really good school,” said the Mock Turtle in a tone of great relief.

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**Who acts:** yours, Mock Turtle · **What happens:** not be, say, intonate · **To what, where:** good school, tone, great relief · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yours, Mock Turtle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg11:10:107
# text = “Ah! then yours wasn’t a really good school,” said the Mock Turtle in a tone of great relief.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
5	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	really	really	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Mock	Mock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | past | yours | a good school |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Mock Turtle |  |  | a tone of great relief |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner |
| 3 | **intonate** |  |  | great relief |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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.

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