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title: The further off from England the nearer is to France— Then turn not… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: The further off from England the nearer is to France— Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance. 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 44

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The further off from England the nearer is to France— Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

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**What happens:** be, turn, come, join · **To what, where:** dance

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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: 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:pg11:11:44
# text = The further off from England the nearer is to France— Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	join	join	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to the nearer France | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then | pale *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **join** | infinitive |  | the dance |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Patient |

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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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