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title: Let this be a lesson to you never to lose _your_ temper!” — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Let this be a lesson to you never to lose _your_ temper!” Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 76

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Let this be a lesson to you never to lose \_your\_ temper!”

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** let, be, not lose, temper · **To what, where:** lesson, temper

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg11:4:76
# text = Let this be a lesson to you never to lose _your_ temper!”
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	_
14	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | this lesson |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **lose** | to-infinitive | you | your temper |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality |
| 4 | **temper** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom temper «feeling 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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