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title: “That’s enough about lessons,” the Gryphon interrupted in a very dec… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “That’s enough about lessons,” the Gryphon interrupted in a very decided tone: “tell her something about the games now.” Who acts: That, enough. 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 ever
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 140

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“That’s enough about lessons,” the Gryphon interrupted in a very decided tone: “tell her something about the games now.”

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**Who acts:** That, enough · **What happens:** be, interrupt, tell · **To what, where:** decided tone, something · **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 (That, enough), 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:pg11:10:140
# text = “That’s enough about lessons,” the Gryphon interrupted in a very decided tone: “tell her something about the games now.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	decided	decided	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | about lessons; enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **interrupt** | past | enough |  |  | a decided tone |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | something |  |  | now | about the games | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent something=Recipient about game=Topic |

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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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