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title: “You’re wrong about the crumbs,” said the Mock Turtle: “crumbs would… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “You’re wrong about the crumbs,” said the Mock Turtle: “crumbs would all wash off in the sea. Who acts: You, Mock Turtle, crumbs. 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 53

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“You’re wrong about the crumbs,” said the Mock Turtle: “crumbs would all wash off in the sea.

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**Who acts:** You, Mock Turtle, crumbs · **What happens:** be, say, wash off · **To what, where:** sea · **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 (You, Mock Turtle, crumbs), 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:pg11:11:53
# text = “You’re wrong about the crumbs,” said the Mock Turtle: “crumbs would all wash off in the sea.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’re	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Mock	Mock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Mock Turtle |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **wash off** *in a quote* | would | crumbs |  |  | the sea |  | all *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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