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title: “Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on; then, when you’ve cleared all th… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on; then, when you’ve cleared all the jelly-fish out of the way—” A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 10

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“Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on; then, when you’ve cleared all the jelly-fish out of the way—”

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**What happens:** clear · **To what, where:** Seals, way

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. 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:pg11:11:10
# text = “Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on; then, when you’ve cleared all the jelly-fish out of the way—”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’ve	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	cleared	clear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	jelly	jelly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clear** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Seals and turtles and salmon |  | the way |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary fish=Product |

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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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