Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 16

The Mouse cries, "Would you like cats if you were me?" and calls cats "nasty, low, vulgar things"; "vulgar" here means common and rude.

Who acts: Mouse, cries, you, cats, vulgar · What happens: cry, like, be, call, mean · To what, where: cats, Mouse, nasty low vulgar things · 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 (Mouse, cries, you, cats), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mouse	det
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cries	nsubj
3	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 like	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cries	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 cries	punct
6	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 like	obj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 me	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 me	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 me	cop
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 like	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 calls	cc
17	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 like	conj
18	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 calls	obj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 things	punct
20	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 things	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nasty	punct
22	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 things	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 low	punct
24	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 things	amod
25	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 calls	xcomp
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 things	punct
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 vulgar	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 vulgar	punct
29	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 means	nsubj
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 vulgar	punct
31	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 things	advmod
32	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 like	conj
33	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 means	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 rude	cc
35	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 common	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cries	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, indirect=0, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express		the Mouse			tree rules
2	like in a quote	would	cries	cats		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cat=Theme
3	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you	the Mouse = mouse		tree rules
4	call	present	cats	nasty low vulgar things		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mean	present	vulgar		common property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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:16.

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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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