--- title: “I should like to hear her try and repeat something now. — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “I should like to hear her try and repeat something now. Who acts: Gryphon, Alice. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/95/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/) / [Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/) / 95 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 95 “I should like to hear her try and repeat something now. **Who acts:** Gryphon, Alice · **What happens:** like, hear, try, repeat · **To what, where:** Alice, something 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, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg11:760`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11:11:95 # text = “I should like to hear her try and repeat something now. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 repeat repeat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **like** *in a quote* | should | the Gryphon *= gryphon* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **hear** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Gryphon *= gryphon* *not said here* | Alice | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **repeat** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alice *not said here* | something | | | now | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | 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. **Text:** «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/96/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/)