Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 119

“What _is_ the use of repeating all that stuff,” the Mock Turtle interrupted, “if you don’t explain it as you go on?

Who acts: _, use, you · What happens: be, repeat, interrupt, not explain, go on · To what, where: stuff

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 (_, use, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 interrupted	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 interrupted	nsubj:outer
3	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 What	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 What	cop
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 use	det
7	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 What	nsubj
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 repeating	mark
9	repeating	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 use	acl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 stuff	det:predet
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 stuff	det
12	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 repeating	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Turtle	det
16	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Turtle	compound
17	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 interrupted	nsubj
18	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 explain	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 explain	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 explain	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 explain	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 explain	aux
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 explain	advmod
25	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 interrupted	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 explain	obj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 go	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 go	nsubj
29	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 explain	advcl
30	on	on	ADV	_	29 go	advmod
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 interrupted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	_		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	interrupt	past			tree rules
4	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
5	go on in a quote	present	you		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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