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title: “—change lobsters, and retire in same order,” continued the Gryphon. — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “—change lobsters, and retire in same order,” continued the Gryphon. Who acts: change lobsters. 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 15

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“—change lobsters, and retire in same order,” continued the Gryphon.

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**Who acts:** change lobsters · **What happens:** retire, continue · **To what, where:** same order, Gryphon

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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 (change lobsters), 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:pg11:11:15
# text = “—change lobsters, and retire in same order,” continued the Gryphon.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	retire	retire	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	appos	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|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	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retire** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | same order |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **continue** | past | change lobsters | the Gryphon |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent gryphon=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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