Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 15
She says "Où est ma chatte?", the first sentence in her French book, which means "Where is my cat?"; the Mouse leaps out of the water in fright.
Who acts: Alice, first sentence, Mouse · What happens: say, mean, be, leap out · To what, where: cat, water, fright · 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, first sentence, Mouse), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 chatte | punct |
| 4 | Où | Où | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chatte | compound |
| 5 | est | est | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ma | compound |
| 6 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chatte | compound |
| 7 | chatte | chatte | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 chatte | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 chatte | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sentence | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sentence | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 sentence | amod |
| 13 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chatte | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 book | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 book | nmod:poss |
| 16 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 book | amod |
| 17 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sentence | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 means | nsubj |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sentence | acl:relcl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Where | punct |
| 22 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 cat | advmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 cat | cop |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 cat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 means | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 cat | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 cat | punct |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 leaps | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Mouse | det |
| 30 | Mouse | mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 leaps | nsubj |
| 31 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 means | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 water | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 water | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 water | det |
| 35 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leaps | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 fright | case |
| 37 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leaps | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | the first sentence in Alice's French book | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | my cat | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | leap out | present | the Mouse | the water | fright | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory |
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:15.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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