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title: And the Gryphon added “Come, let’s hear some of _your_ adventures.” — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Gryphon added “Come, let’s hear some of _your_ adventures.” Who acts: Gryphon, ’s, your. 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 85

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And the Gryphon added “Come, let’s hear some of \_your\_ adventures.”

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**Who acts:** Gryphon, ’s, your · **What happens:** add, come, let, hear, adventure · **To what, where:** ’s, some · **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 (Gryphon, ’s, your), 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:pg11:11:85
# text = And the Gryphon added “Come, let’s hear some of _your_ adventures.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
16	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | the Gryphon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | ’s |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | ’s *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus |
| 5 | **adventure** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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