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title: “Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?” the Gryphon… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?” the Gryphon went on. Who acts: we, Gryphon. 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 122

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“Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?” the Gryphon went on.

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**Who acts:** we, Gryphon · **What happens:** try, go on, figure · **To what, where:** figure, Lobster Quadrille · **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 (we, Gryphon), 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:pg11:11:122
# text = “Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?” the Gryphon went on.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Lobster	Lobster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Quadrille	Quadrille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	on	on	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** *in a quote* | shall | we | another figure of the Lobster Quadrille |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** | past | the Gryphon |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **figure** *in a quote* |  |  | the Lobster Quadrille |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=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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