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title: “Yes, I think you’d better leave off,” said the Gryphon: and Alice w… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes, I think you’d better leave off,” said the Gryphon: and Alice was only too glad to do so. Who acts: I, you, Gryphon, 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 121

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“Yes, I think you’d better leave off,” said the Gryphon: and Alice was only too glad to do so.

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**Who acts:** I, you, Gryphon, Alice · **What happens:** think, have, leave off, say, be, do · **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 (I, you, Gryphon, 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:pg11:11:121
# text = “Yes, I think you’d better leave off,” said the Gryphon: and Alice was only too glad to do so.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’d	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave off** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Gryphon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP 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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