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title: “Up, lazy thing!” said the Queen, “and take this young lady to see t… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Up, lazy thing!” said the Queen, “and take this young lady to see the Mock Turtle, and to hear his history. Who acts: Queen. 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 65

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“Up, lazy thing!” said the Queen, “and take this young lady to see the Mock Turtle, and to hear his history.

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** say, take, see, hear · **To what, where:** young lady, Mock Turtle, history · **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 (Queen), 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:pg11:10:65
# text = “Up, lazy thing!” said the Queen, “and take this young lady to see the Mock Turtle, and to hear his history.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Mock	Mock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | this young lady |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lady=Destination |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the Mock Turtle |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turtle=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | voice's history |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer history=Stimulus |

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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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