Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 44

The further off from England the nearer is to France— Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

What happens: be, turn, come, join · To what, where: dance

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: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 further	det
2	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 further	compound:prt
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 England	case
5	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 further	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 France	det
7	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 France	amod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 France	cop
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 France	case
10	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 England	conj
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 turn	punct
12	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 turn	advmod
13	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 further	parataxis
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 pale	advmod
15	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 turn	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 snail	punct
17	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 snail	amod
18	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pale	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 turn	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 join	cc
23	join	join	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 turn	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dance	det
25	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 join	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 further	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present			to the nearer France	tree rules
2	turn	infinitive		then	pale property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	come	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	join	infinitive	the dance			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Patient

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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