Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 19

When Alice promises not to talk about cats or dogs, the Mouse comes back, its face "quite pale (with passion, Alice thought)", and says it will tell its "history" on the shore.

Who acts: Alice, Mouse, face · What happens: promise, not talk, come back, think, say, tell · To what, where: history, shore · 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, Mouse, face), 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 promises	advmod
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 promises	nsubj
3	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 comes	advcl
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 talk	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 talk	mark
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promises	xcomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 cats	case
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 dogs	cc
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cats	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 comes	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Mouse	det
13	Mouse	mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 comes	nsubj
14	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 comes	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 face	punct
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 face	nmod:poss
18	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pale	nsubj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 pale	punct
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 pale	advmod
21	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 promises	parataxis
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 passion	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 passion	case
24	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pale	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thought	punct
26	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 thought	nsubj
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promises	parataxis
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 thought	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 promises	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 says	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 says	cc
32	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 promises	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 tell	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 tell	aux
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 says	ccomp
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 history	nmod:poss
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 history	punct
38	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tell	obj
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 history	punct
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 shore	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 shore	det
42	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tell	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promises	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	Alice				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			about cats or dogs	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic
3	come back	present	the Mouse				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other in a quote	past	Alice				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	present	Alice not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	tell speech: assert	future	face	face's history	the shore		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent history=Recipient

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:19.

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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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