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title: “Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,” Alice rep… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,” Alice replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather offended tone, “Hm! Who acts: Mock Turtle, kind, Gryphon. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, with its dependency t
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 124

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“Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,” Alice replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather offended tone, “Hm!

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**Who acts:** Mock Turtle, kind, Gryphon · **What happens:** be, reply, say · **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 (Mock Turtle, kind, 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:pg11:11:124
# text = “Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,” Alice replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather offended tone, “Hm!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Mock	Mock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	offended	offended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Hm	hm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | would | the Mock Turtle |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | kind |  |  |  |  | eagerly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Gryphon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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