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title: “Same as if he had a bone in his throat,” said the Gryphon: and it s… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Same as if he had a bone in his throat,” said the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him and punching him in the back. Who acts: Turtle, Gryphon. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 3

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“Same as if he had a bone in his throat,” said the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him and punching him in the back.

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**Who acts:** Turtle, Gryphon · **What happens:** have, say, set, work, shake, punch · **To what, where:** bone, throat, Turtle, back · **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 (Turtle, 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:pg11:11:3
# text = “Same as if he had a bone in his throat,” said the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him and punching him in the back.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	punching	punch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Turtle | a bone |  | Turtle's throat |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Gryphon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **set** | past | Gryphon |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | Gryphon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shake** | gerund | Gryphon *not said here* | Turtle |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 6 | **punch** | gerund | Gryphon *not said here* | Turtle |  | the back |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in back=Location |

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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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