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title: “Stand up and repeat ‘’_Tis the voice of the sluggard_,’” said the G… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Stand up and repeat ‘’_Tis the voice of the sluggard_,’” said the Gryphon. Who acts: Gryphon. 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 98

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“Stand up and repeat ‘’\_Tis the voice of the sluggard\_,’” said the Gryphon.

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**Who acts:** Gryphon · **What happens:** stand up, repeat, say · **To what, where:** Tis · **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), 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:pg11:11:98
# text = “Stand up and repeat ‘’_Tis the voice of the sluggard_,’” said the Gryphon.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	‘’	‘'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sluggard	sluggard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **repeat** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Tis |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tis=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Gryphon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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