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title: “You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple questi… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,” added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth. Who acts: Gryphon, word, poor Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter I
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 93

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“You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,” added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.

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**Who acts:** Gryphon, word, poor Alice · **What happens:** be, ask, add, sit, look, feel · **To what, where:** simple question, earth · **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, word, poor Alice), 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:pg11:10:93
# text = “You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,” added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
17	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	both	both	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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* | ought |  |  |  |  |  | of yourself; ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | gerund |  | such simple question |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | the Gryphon |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit** | past | word |  |  |  | then | both, silent *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | past | word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at poor Alice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at alice=Theme |
| 6 | **feel** | past | poor Alice |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **sink** | to-infinitive | poor Alice *not said here* |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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