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

A mouse is swimming there too, and Alice politely tries English, then her school French, but the first French sentence she knows is "Where is my cat?", which terrifies it.

Who acts: mouse, Alice, first French sentence, cat · What happens: swim, try, know, be, terrify · To what, where: English, first French sentence, cat, sentence · 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, Alice, first French sentence, cat), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mouse	det
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swimming	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 swimming	aux
4	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 swimming	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 swimming	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tries	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tries	cc
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tries	nsubj
10	politely	politely	ADV	_	11 tries	advmod
11	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 swimming	conj
12	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tries	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 French	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 French	advmod
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 school	nmod:poss
16	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 French	compound
17	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tries	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knows	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 knows	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sentence	det
21	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 sentence	amod
22	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sentence	amod
23	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cat	nsubj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knows	nsubj
25	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sentence	acl:relcl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 cat	cop
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Where	punct
28	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 cat	advmod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 cat	cop
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 cat	nmod:poss
31	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tries	parataxis
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 cat	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 cat	punct
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 terrifies	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 terrifies	nsubj
36	terrifies	terrify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 cat	acl:relcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 terrifies	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swimming	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	present · progressive	a mouse		there		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	present	Alice	English		politely property	tree rules
3	know	present	Alice	the first French sentence not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sentence=Stimulus
4	is a in a quote	present	the first French sentence	my cat			tree rules
5	terrify	present	my cat	sentence			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

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:2.

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. 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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