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title: “Well, then,” the Gryphon went on, “if you don’t know what to uglify… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, then,” the Gryphon went on, “if you don’t know what to uglify is, you _are_ a simpleton.” Who acts: Gryphon, you. 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 121

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“Well, then,” the Gryphon went on, “if you don’t know what to uglify is, you \_are\_ a simpleton.”

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**Who acts:** Gryphon, you · **What happens:** go on, not know, be, uglify · **To what, where:** simpleton · **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 (Gryphon, you), 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:pg11:10:121
# text = “Well, then,” the Gryphon went on, “if you don’t know what to uglify is, you _are_ a simpleton.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	uglify	uglify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | the Gryphon |  |  |  | then |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **know** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a simpleton |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **uglify** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | a simpleton |  |  |  |  | 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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**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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