Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 12

At first she thinks the splashing creature is a walrus or hippopotamus, but, being so small, she sees it is only a mouse.

Who acts: Alice, splashing creature, creature · What happens: think, splash, be, see · To what, where: walrus, mouse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» 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 (Alice, splashing creature, creature), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 thinks	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thinks	nsubj
4	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 creature	det
6	splashing	splash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 creature	amod
7	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walrus	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 walrus	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 walrus	det
10	walrus	walrus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinks	ccomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 hippopotamus	cc
12	hippopotamus	hippopotamus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walrus	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sees	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 sees	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 small	punct
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 small	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 small	advmod
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sees	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 small	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sees	nsubj
21	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thinks	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 mouse	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 mouse	cop
24	only	only	ADV	_	26 mouse	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 mouse	det
26	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sees	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Alice			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	splash	gerund				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	the splashing creature	a walrus or hippopotamus		tree rules
4	is	gerund	Alice not said here		small property	tree rules
5	see	present	Alice			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	present	creature	a mouse		tree rules

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:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.lesson:12.

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): no change. 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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