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title: At last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, “Drive on, old fellow! — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, “Drive on, old fellow! 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 94

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At last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, “Drive on, old fellow!

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**What happens:** say, drive · **To what, where:** Mock Turtle, last Gryphon, old fellow · **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: 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:pg11:10:94
# text = At last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, “Drive on, old fellow!
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Mock	Mock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past |  |  | the Mock Turtle | the last Gryphon |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to turtle=Recipient |
| 2 | **drive** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | old fellow |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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