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title: “Go on with the next verse,” the Gryphon repeated impatiently: “it b… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Go on with the next verse,” the Gryphon repeated impatiently: “it begins ‘_I passed by his garden_.’” Who acts: Gryphon, verse, Alice. 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 114

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“Go on with the next verse,” the Gryphon repeated impatiently: “it begins ‘\_I passed by his garden\_.’”

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**Who acts:** Gryphon, verse, Alice · **What happens:** go on, repeat, begin, pass · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (Gryphon, verse, 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:pg11:11:114
# text = “Go on with the next verse,” the Gryphon repeated impatiently: “it begins ‘_I passed by his garden_.’”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Gryphon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the next verse | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **repeat** | past | the Gryphon |  |  |  |  | impatiently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **begin** *in a quote* | present | verse |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pass** *in a quote* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | by thing's garden | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by garden=Location |

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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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