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description: “You can really have no notion how delightful it will be When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!” Who acts: You, Seals. 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 
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 38

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“You can really have no notion how delightful it will be When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!”

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**Who acts:** You, Seals · **What happens:** have, be, throw · **To what, where:** notion, lobsters, us

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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, Seals), 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:pg11:11:38
# text = “You can really have no notion how delightful it will be When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	expl	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	out	out	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	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* | can | You | no notion |  |  |  | delightful *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | future | Seals *= seal* | notion |  |  |  | take *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **throw** *in a quote* | infinitive | Seals *= seal* *not said here* | the lobsters and sea | us |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination lobster=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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