Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 13

Alice says "O Mouse!" because she once saw in her brother's Latin Grammar "A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!"; "O Mouse" is the old way of calling to someone.

Who acts: Alice, O Mouse, old way · What happens: say, see, be, call · To what, where: mouse, Latin Grammar, old way, someone · 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, O Mouse, old way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

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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