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title: “Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a song?” — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a song?” Who acts: you. 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 123

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“Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a song?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** like, sing · **To what, where:** Mock Turtle, song, you

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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 (you), 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:pg11:11:123
# text = “Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a song?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Mock	Mock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** *in a quote* | would | you | the Mock Turtle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a song | you |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary song=Theme |

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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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