--- title: “Well, there was Mystery,” the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “Well, there was Mystery,” the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, “—Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling—the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: _he_ taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.” Who acts --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/123/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/) / [Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/) / 123 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 123 “Well, there was Mystery,” the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, “—Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling—the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: \_he\_ taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.” **Who acts:** Mock Turtle, Drawling master, old conger eel, course · **What happens:** be, reply, count off, drawl, use, come · **To what, where:** Mystery, subjects, old conger eel, Drawling, us, Fainting · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Mock Turtle, Drawling master, old conger eel, course), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11:10:123 # text = “Well, there was Mystery,” the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, “—Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling—the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: _he_ taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 Mystery mystery NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Mock Mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 15 off off ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 subjects subject NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 flappers flapper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 — - PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Mystery mystery NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Seaography seaography NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 34 Drawling drawl VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 — - PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 Drawling drawling NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 42 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 43 conger conger NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 48 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 acl:relcl _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ 51 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 50 advmod _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 54 : : PUNCT : _ 58 punct _ _ 55 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 _ _ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 nsubj _ _ 58 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 59 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 58 obj _ _ 60 Drawling Drawling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 62 Stretching stretch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 58 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 Fainting Fainting PROPN NNP Number=Sing 62 obl _ _ 66 in in ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 67 Coils coil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 62 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 69 ” " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | | Mystery | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Mock Turtle | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **count off** | gerund | the Mock Turtle *not said here* | the subjects on course's flappers | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 4 | **drawl** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | the Mock Turtle *not said here* | | | | then | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the Drawling master | a old conger eel | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **use** *in a quote* | past | a old conger eel | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **come** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a old conger eel *not said here* | | | | | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | course | Drawling | us | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient drawling=Topic | | 9 | **stretch** *in a quote* | gerund | course *not said here* | Fainting | | Coils | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/122/) - next →: [sentence 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/124/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/)