Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 22

«What is the use of repeating all that stuff, if you don't explain it as you go on?» says the Mock Turtle: «It's by far the most confusing thing I ever heard!», and the Gryphon lets her stop.

Who acts: use, you, Mock Turtle, stuff, Gryphon, Turtle · What happens: be, repeat, not explain, go, say, hear · To what, where: use, stuff, confusing thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use, you, Mock Turtle, stuff), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 use	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 use	det
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 repeating	mark
7	repeating	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 use	acl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 stuff	det
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 stuff	det
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 repeating	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 explain	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 explain	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 explain	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 explain	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 explain	advmod
16	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 use	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 explain	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 go	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
20	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 explain	advcl
21	on	on	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 on	punct
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 says	punct
24	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Turtle	det
26	Mock	mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Turtle	compound
27	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 says	nsubj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 says	punct
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	37 thing	punct
30	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 thing	nsubj
31	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 thing	cop
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 far	case
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 thing	obl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 thing	det
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	36 confusing	advmod
36	confusing	confusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 thing	amod
37	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 says	ccomp
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 heard	nsubj
39	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	40 heard	advmod
40	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 thing	acl:relcl
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
42	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 lets	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 lets	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Gryphon	det
46	Gryphon	gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 lets	nsubj
47	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	conj
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 stop	nsubj
49	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 lets	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the use		tree rules
2	repeat in a quote	gerund	the use not said here	all stuff		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Eventuality
3	not explain speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	you	stuff		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	go in a quote	present	you			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: ask	present	the Mock Turtle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present	stuff	the confusing thing		tree rules
7	hear in a quote	past	the Mock Turtle = turtle	the confusing thing not said here	ever	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
8	let	present	the Gryphon			tree rules
9	stop	infinitive	Turtle			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:22.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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