Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 17

When Alice says "We won't talk about her any more", the Mouse cries "We indeed!", offended at being counted in, as if it would ever talk about cats.

Who acts: Alice, We, Mouse, vulgar · What happens: say, not talk, cry, offend, count in, talk · 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, We, Mouse, vulgar), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 says	advmod
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 cries	advcl
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 talk	punct
5	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 talk	nsubj
6	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 talk	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 talk	advmod
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 talk	obl
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 more	det
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 talk	advmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 talk	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cries	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Mouse	det
16	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cries	nsubj
17	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 We	punct
19	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 !	nsubj
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	21 !	advmod
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 cries	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 cries	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 offended	punct
24	offended	offend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 cries	advcl
25	at	at	SCONJ	_	27 counted	mark
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 counted	aux:pass
27	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 offended	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	27 counted	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 counted	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 if	fixed
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 talk	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 talk	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 talk	aux
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 talk	advmod
35	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 counted	advcl
36	about	about	ADP	_	37 cats	case
37	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 talk	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 cries	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not talk in a quote	future	We		about Alice	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about she=Topic
3	cry speech: express	present	the Mouse			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	offend	participle	the Mouse not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	count in	gerund · passive	the Mouse not said here			vn matter-91 «NP V»
6	talk a condition, not said to happen	would	vulgar	ever	about cats	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic

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:17.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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