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title: See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! 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 34

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See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** lobsters

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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:pg11:11:34
# text = See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | the lobsters and the turtles |  |  |  | eagerly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lobster=Stimulus |

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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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