Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 3
Every time she tries to make friends she makes it worse, chatting happily about her cat Dinah and a rat-killing dog, until the Mouse swims away offended.
Who acts: Alice, Mouse · What happens: try, make, chat, kill, swim away · To what, where: friends, sentence
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), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tries | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tries | nsubj |
| 4 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tries | xcomp |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 makes | nsubj |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 friends | acl:relcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 makes | obj |
| 11 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chatting | punct |
| 13 | chatting | chat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 makes | advcl |
| 14 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 13 chatting | advmod |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 cat | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cat | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chatting | obl |
| 18 | Dinah | Dinah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cat | appos |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dog | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dog | det |
| 21 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 killing | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 rat | punct |
| 23 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 dog | amod |
| 24 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cat | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 swims | punct |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 swims | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Mouse | det |
| 28 | Mouse | mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 swims | nsubj |
| 29 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 chatting | advcl |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 swims | advmod |
| 31 | offended | offended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 swims | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | Alice | time | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | friends | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product | ||||
| 3 | make | present | Alice | sentence | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 4 | chat speech: other | gerund | Alice not said here | about Alice's cat and a killing dog; happily property | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic | ||||
| 5 | kill | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | swim away | present | the Mouse | away, offended property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:3.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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