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title: These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation of “Hjckrrh!” from the Gryphon, and the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Who acts: long silence, Mock Turtle. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock T
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 86

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These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation of “Hjckrrh!” from the Gryphon, and the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle.

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**Who acts:** long silence, Mock Turtle · **What happens:** follow, break, exclaim, sob · **To what, where:** words, long silence, Hjckrrh

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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 (long silence, 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:pg11:10:86
# text = These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation of “Hjckrrh!” from the Gryphon, and the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	occasional	occasional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Hjckrrh	Hjckrrh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	sobbing	sobbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Mock	Mock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past · passive | a long silence | this words |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  | a long silence *not said here* |  |  |  | by a occasional exclamation of Hjckrrh from the Gryphon and the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by exclamation=Location |
| 3 | **exclaim** |  |  | Hjckrrh from the Gryphon |  |  |  |  | nom exclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **sob** |  | the Mock Turtle |  |  |  |  |  | nom sobbing «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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