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title: “Back to land again, and that’s all the first figure,” said the Mock… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Back to land again, and that’s all the first figure,” said the Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping his voice; and the two creatures, who had been jumping about like mad things all this time, sat down again very sadly and quietly, and looked at Alice. Who acts: that, Mock Turtle, two creatures. A sentenc
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 22

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“Back to land again, and that’s all the first figure,” said the Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping his voice; and the two creatures, who had been jumping about like mad things all this time, sat down again very sadly and quietly, and looked at Alice.

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**Who acts:** that, Mock Turtle, two creatures · **What happens:** land, be, say, drop, jump about, sit down · **To what, where:** first figure, voice · **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 (that, Mock Turtle, two creatures), 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:pg11:11:22
# text = “Back to land again, and that’s all the first figure,” said the Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping his voice; and the two creatures, who had been jumping about like mad things all this time, sat down again very sadly and quietly, and looked at Alice.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Mock	Mock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	aux	_	_
34	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	about	about	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
40	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
44	down	down	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	again	again	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
46	very	very	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
53	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | all first figure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Mock Turtle |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **drop** | gerund | the Mock Turtle *not said here* | Turtle's voice |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 5 | **jump about** | past · perfect · progressive | the two creatures |  |  |  | time | like mad things; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sit down** | past | the two creatures |  |  |  | again | sadly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **look** | past | the two creatures *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Alice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at alice=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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