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title: Sing her ‘_Turtle Soup_,’ will you, old fellow?” — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Sing her ‘_Turtle Soup_,’ will you, old fellow?” 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 126

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Sing her ‘\_Turtle Soup\_,’ will you, old fellow?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** sing · **To what, where:** kind

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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:pg11:11:126
# text = Sing her ‘_Turtle Soup_,’ will you, old fellow?”
1	Sing	sing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Soup	Soup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* | kind |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=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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